Heart, Vol. 4: A Journal for the Study of the Circulation; 1912-1913

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Excerpt from HeartM. M. Was born in 1865 he contracted syphilis in 1887. In 1894, he had his first attack of syncope and had suffered from more or less prolonged attacks of loss of consciousness, sometimes accompanied by convulsions, up to the time when he was first examined. The first record of slow pulse rate dates from 1906, but his detailed history leaves little doubt that it had been present for a longer period.