What was the role of Morgagni in describing complete heart block?
He had actually reported it almost 100 years before Adams and Stokes, in a merchant from Padua whom he had evaluated: “When visiting by way of consultation, I found with such a rarity of the pulse that within the
60th part of an hour the pulsations were only 22. And this rareness, which was perpetual, was perceived to be even more considerable, as often as many as two (epileptic) attacks were at hand. So that the physicians
were never deceived from the increase of the rareness they foretold a paroxysm to be coming on.”
He had actually reported it almost 100 years before Adams and Stokes, in a merchant from Padua whom he had evaluated: “When visiting by way of consultation, I found with such a rarity of the pulse that within the
60th part of an hour the pulsations were only 22. And this rareness, which was perpetual, was perceived to be even more considerable, as often as many as two (epileptic) attacks were at hand. So that the physicians
were never deceived from the increase of the rareness they foretold a paroxysm to be coming on.”