CORONARY THROMBOSIS AND ANGINA PECTORIS

To the Editor:  —I am impelled to write this letter after reading the interesting discussions in The Journal, June 22, page 2131.Schiller speaks of the philosopher when he says, "Thus, in order to determine the fleeting apparition, he must enchain it in the fetters of a rule, dissect its fair proportions into abstract notions, and preserve its living spirit in a fleshless skeleton of words." The fleeting apparitions have been determined in two clinical syndromes, angina pectoris and coronary thrombosis. That they still are but fleeting apparitions and still enchained is shown by the great number of fundamental questions that Dr. Herrick has been able to ask about these two remarkable conditions. Dr. McCrae believes that angina pectoris belongs to an "indefinite group." This is true, but also true I believe of coronary thrombosis. In the latter group we have isolated the syndrome of occlusion of a main coronary