Heart-Block

Although syncopal attacks are fairly common in cases of complete heart-block, they do not, as a rule, occur with sufficient frequency in any given case to allow the cardiac mechanism during an attack to be graphically recorded.Polygrams have been obtained during such attacks by Lewis,1 and Williams2 has obtained an electrocardiogram during an attack in one instance.The following case is of interest because electrocardiographic records were obtained during several Stokes-Adams attacks, and also as an example of transient complete heart-block. REPORT OF CASEHistory.=m-.N. M., an American housewife, aged 48, entered the Barnes Hospital, May 10, 1917, on the advice of her family physician, Dr