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Treatment of Angina Pectoris  The treatment of angina pectoris remains on the program of several learned societies. Today less emphasis is being laid on internal medication and more importance is being attached to direct action brought to bear on the nerve plexuses, either through roentgen rays or by surgical means. Before the Société de radiologie, MM. Nemours-Auguste and Barrière gave an account of fifty-one cases, all of a grave type and of long standing, in which radiotherapy was employed after the failure of all ordinary forms of medication. The attacks and the pains disappeared completely in thirty-one patients; in eight others there persisted only a few pains, which were quite endurable. Five patients obtained no benefit from the treatment. One patient had a violent attack after the third sitting. Five patients died, and several of these had noted at first an evident amelioration of the pains. Their condition was, however,