would they have known about heart attacks

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Well, In my book, the main characters mother suffers a heart attack. The family then calls the doctor in. I'm a little confused about what the doctor should say, "oh she had a heart attack" or "oh she had an internal thing we cannot explain," or something. I want to know if anyone could help me, because all I found when i looked up heart attacks is their symptoms and how to prevent them...




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It would help if you told us what time period your story takes place in.




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It takes place in the early 18th century. 1716, to be exact. I posted that in the title. It was probably cut off, I don't know why.

Stupid of me for not seeing that.




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In that case, they did know about heart attacks. They didn't call them heart attacks, though. A weak heart is how they referred to it, and if the person died, they would say something along the lines of "X's heart gave out" or something similar.
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