Show Knife May Prove Cure For Angina Pe Pectoris i CLEVELAND Feb 19 li UP- UP Lakeside hospital here Physicians at were increasingly hopeful today that thata operation for tor angina pectoris a new nevI heart ailment known as IS the scourge entirely sue suc would prove of old a age e whom the o ra A pati patient nt upon operation operation opera opera- I tion was WS performed by Dr Claude ClaudeS S s. s Beck last Wednesday was resting easily tod today y seven da days s 's after the operation oper was vaS performed for the first time in history When th the operation was performed the he patient had had h d several attacks of ot the ailment within a few days and his lis death was considered but a mater mat mat- ter er of ot a few hours The mere fact tact that hat he had lived a week without further urther attacks was looked upon as I insuring the success o of the opera operation tion Heretofore angina pectoris has be been n considered incurable and even even- Ully fatal It U is is caused by harden and ing thickening of the thc coronary arteries which supply blood to the heart As the arteries harden the supply of ot blood is reduced and attacks attacks at at- tacks accompanied d by se severe ere pain follow Eventually the art arteries close completely and death results In this operation first performed many times upon animals Dr Beck attempts to give the heart a fresh so source re of at blood One end of ot the pectoral muscle on the che chest t is sev sev- ered The wall of the heart is exposed exposed exposed ex- ex posed and roughened and the cut ut end of oC the pectoral muscle is attached The muscle feeds new blood to the heart |