An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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SPENS, Thomas

1 entries
  • 2735

History of a case in which there took place a remarkable slowness of the pulse.

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

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.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Arrythmias