Edited by Enrico Molinari, Angelo Compare, and Gianfranco Parati. 515 pp., illustrated. Milan, Springer-Verlag Italia, 2006. $239. ISBN 978-88-470-0377-4.
The ancients recognized the effect of emotions on the pulse,but it wasn't until centuries later that the connection betweenemotions and heart disease was made. John Hunter, the eminent18th-century surgeon who had angina pectoris, noted, "My lifeis in the hands of any rascal who chooses to annoy and teaseme," and indeed, he died in the midst of an argument. In theearly 1900s, Sir William Osler described his patients with coronaryproblems as "worriers" and his patients with angina as "menwhose engines are always set at full speed ahead" — andthis was 50 years . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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