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THE HUMAN PACEMAKER AND ITS PATHOLOGY
Abstract
There is a remarkable remnant of primitive fibres persisting at the sino-auricular junction in all mammalian hearts. These fibres are in close connection with the vagus and sympathetic nerves, and have a special arterial supply; in them the dominating rhythm of the heart is believed to normally arise.
Keith and Flack, 1907.
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↵* St. Cyres Lecture, delivered on June 2, 1959, at The Royal Society of Medicine, under the auspices of The National Heart Hospital.