Tensions rose markedly after Christopher Seider, a young lad about eleven Years of Age, was killed by a customs employee on February 22, 1770. Seider's death was glorified in the Boston Gazette, and his funeral was described as one of the largest of the time in Boston.
Overall, the most common causes of chest pain are. 1  Disorders of the ribs, rib cartilage, chest muscles (musculoskeletal chest wall pain), or nerves in the chest. 2  Inflammation of the membrane that covers the lungs (pleuritis) 3  Inflammation of the membrane that covers the heart (pericarditis)
One of the more frequent causes of non-cardiac chest pain is chest wall pain or musculoskeletal chest pain -- that is, chest pain related to the muscles and bones of the chest wall. Doctors diagnose chest wall pain in at least 25% of patients who come to the emergency room for chest pain.