“…Attempts to define the flutter mechanism n man have since been largely directed to napping the time course of arrival of the -xcitation wave described by Lewis to travel .pward in the left atrial wall and downward n the taenia terminalis of the right atrium (Cabrera and Sodi Pallares, 1947;Duchosal and Sulzer, 1949), many studies aimed to achieve greater proximity by means of oesophageal and right intraatrial electrodes (Duchosal and Sulzer, I949;Enselberg, I95I;Giraud, Latour, and Puech, 1955;Grishman et al, 1950;Groedel and inconclusive (Groedel and Miller, I9so;Prinzmetal et al, 1953).…”