Heart attack

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A heart attack was a condition affecting certain individuals of humanoid species.

In the 1840s, when a tenant farmer tried to flatten the tumulus on Lanyon Moor, he dropped dead of a heart attack. (AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor)

The Seventh Doctor, who, being Gallifreyan, had a binary vascular system, once had a "one-sided" heart attack. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)

Ben Jackson's father died of a heart attack. (AUDIO: The Yes Men)

Geraint Cooper suffered from a series of heart attacks. (TV: The New World, The Categories of Life)

Evelyn Smythe had a heart attack shortly before meeting the Doctor. (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus)

Don had a heart attack after finishing his last game of cricket. (AUDIO: Autumn)

A year after the Shakri cubes arrived on earth, the Eleventh Doctor suffered a heart attack when an electrical surge shot from the cube and stopped one of his hearts (TV: The Power of Three)

The victims of the Foretold suffered a heart attack after the Foretold sucked out the energy from their cells. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)

The final stage of infection by parasitic Rempaths is a fit of rage resulting in a fatal heart attack ( In the Blood (novel))

Behind the scenes

Several Doctor Who contributors have suffered from heart attacks:

• Patrick Troughton had three major heart attacks, in 1978, 1984, and 1987. He died from the last one.
• Ian Marter died of a heart attack in 1986.
• Jon Pertwee died of a heart attack in 1996.
• Richard Hurndall died of a heart attack in 1984.