Gaskell and the physiology of the heart

摘要

The stirring events of recent weeks, when men's minds have been turned from the paths of intellectual life into other fields of human activity, should not make us oblivious of the names which deserve honor because of what they represent in science. For this reason we shall not forego the opportunity to refer to the death of Dr. Walter Holbrook Gaskell at his home in England, Sept. 4,1914, at the age of 67 years. To this talented physiologist, stimulated by the environment of the Cambridge school under the influence of Michael Foster and trained in Ludwig's laboratory at Leipsic, we owe some of the fundamental observations regarding the mechanism of the phenomenon known as heart-block-a condition to-day recognized clinically and studied experimentally wherever the medical sciences flourish.