Huttmann A
Institut für Geschichte of Medizin und des Krankenhauswesens, Aachen, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Wien Klin Wochenschr. 1992;104(5):124-9.
Since our student days we have been accustomed to enumerating the individual elements of the heart's rhythmic centre and conduction system in accordance with the order of their functions, from cranial to caudal. We begin, therefore, with the sino-atrial node in the right atrium, after which comes the atrioventricular node, the bundle of His and, finally, Purkinje's fibres. The respective discoveries were made in precisely the opposite order, however. Purkinje's fibres were discovered in 1839, the bundle of His in 1893, the atrioventricular node was discovered by Aschoff and Tawara in 1905-1906 and the sinus node by Keith and Flack in 1906. The biographies of the respective discoverers and the circumstances surrounding their discoveries are dealt with briefly.
从学生时代起，我们就习惯按照心脏节律中心和传导系统各组成部分的功能顺序，从颅侧到尾侧进行罗列。因此，我们首先从右心房的窦房结开始，接着是房室结、希氏束，最后是浦肯野纤维。然而，这些结构却是按照完全相反的顺序被发现的。浦肯野纤维于1839年被发现，希氏束于1893年被发现，房室结由阿绍夫和塔瓦拉于1905 - 1906年发现，窦房结则由基思和弗拉克于1906年发现。文中将简要介绍各位发现者的生平及其发现的相关背景情况。
