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Glyceryl trinitrate is the pharmaceutical name for nitroglycerin, which is used in the treatment and prophylaxis of angina.
The origins of the medical use (possibly apocryphal) stem from some workers at Alfred Nobel's nitroglycerin factory finding that their angina improved while they were inhaling airborne nitroglycerin.
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