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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
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History of a case in which there took place a remarkable slowness of the pulse.

SPENS, Thomas (1764 – 1842)

Publication Details

Med. Commentaries (1792), Edinburgh, 7, 458-65. 1793 CE.

Morgagni described a case of “epilepsy with slow pulse” (see No. 2734), but Adams has been given the credit for reporting the first clear case of heart block (No. 2745). There is no doubt that Spens reported such a case in 1792.

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