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MAREY, Étienne Jules (1830 – 1904)

MAREY, Étienne Jules (1830 – 1904)

1830 – 1904

8 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Félix Nadar (1820-­1910) · catalogue.drouot.com · Public domain

1860 CE

#776

Recherches sur le pouls au moyen d’un nouvel appareil enregistreur le sphygmographe.

Invention of the modern sphygmograph. Also published in C.R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1860, 51, 281-309. Preliminary paper in same journal, 1860, 50, 634-37.

1861 CE

#813

Loi qui préside à la fréquence des battements du coeur.

Marey’s law of the heart. Marey was the first to realize the relationship between the blood pressure and the heart rate.

1863 CE

#816

Appareils et expériences cardiographiques.

First direct records of the heart impulse by means of a “cardiac sound” and the sphygmograph – recording tambours, which wrote on a moving drum covered with smoked paper.

1863 CE

#11690

Physiologie médicale de la circulation du sang basée sur l'étude graphique des mouvements du coeur et du pouls artériel avec application aux maladies du l'appareil circulatoire.

Marey first recorded atrial fibrillation in this work work in which he used pulse tracings to establish the interelationship of heart rate and blood pressure. The work also includes the first detailed description of t…

1878 CE

#7294

La méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales et particulièrement en physiologie et en médecine.

Marey pioneered the use of graphical recording in the experimental sciences, using instruments (many of his own invention) to capture and display data impossible to observe with the senses alone, and to record the pro…

1881 CE

#783

La circulation du sang à l’état physiologique et dans les maladies.

1894 CE

#643

Le mouvement.

Marey, like Muybridge (No. 650-51), was a pioneer in the use of serial pictures as a method of studying the mechanics of locomotion. English translation, 1895.

1980 CE

#11689

Marey and cardiology: physiologist and pioneer of technology (1830-1904).