Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: long follow-up and an Anglo-American historical note.

A patient who developed palpitation in 1917 was later found to have the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and survived to the age of 86, when he died of emphysema. Shortly before he first presented, a report of another patient had been published that can now retrospectively be recognized as containing the first tracings from a case of the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome; its coauthors were a distinguished American cardiologist, Alfred E. Cohn, who had worked with Sir Thomas Lewis, and his British research fellow, Francis R. Fraser.