Abstract
On Tuesday, June 5, 1888, Dr. William C. Dabney, professor of obstetrics and practice of medicine in the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, saw the first recorded case of pleurodynia in North America. 1 [The patient] had been taken suddenly a few hours before with violent pain in the left side of the chest nearly over the region of the heart. His temperature was 103°, and the skin extremely hot and pungent to the touch; his bowels were rather constipated, but not markedly so; there was no nausea, but very little appetite. His chief complaint was of the pain in the chest, which was excruciating and aggravated by the slightest movement, or by drawing a long breath. Nothing abnormal could be discovered about the thoracic organs, however, on physical examination. Dr. Dabney prescribed rest, antipyrine, mercurous chloride, and a mustard plaster and made another visit the next day. The patient, a
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