THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM OF THE STOKES-ADAMS ATTACK

Abstract

rhe combination of a slow pulse with syncopal, epileptiform, or pseudo- apoplectic attacks was briefly mentioned by Morgagni in 1761; then it was more fully described by an Edinburgh physician, Spens (1793), and by Adams (1827) and Burnett (1827), equally well in the same year. Stokes (1846) wrote the important paper that drew general attention to the subject: because of this, and because Huchard (1899) originally proposed the term Stokes-Adams disease, we strongly favour its retention in this order and excluding the use of the word " syndrome ", which would imply that all similar cases whatever the underlying pathology were to be included.