Facets

1959 CE

#2883.3

A bipolar myocardial electrode for complete heart block.

With N. A. Roth, D. Bernardez, and J. L. Noble.

1994 CE

#13823

A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography.

1920 CE

#2853.1

A method of analyzing the electrocardiogram.

Mann developed the monocardiogram while a fourth-year medical student. This was the first vector loop and the beginning of modern vectorcardiography.

1897 CE

#2807

A simple and accurate form of sphygmomanometer or arterial pressure gauge contrived for clinical use.

Hill and Barnard made an important modification to the Riva-Rocci sphygmomanometer when they substituted a pressure gauge in place of the mercury manometer used for pressure readings.

1960 CE

#3047.15

A transistorized, self-contained, implantable pacemaker for the long-term correction of complete heart block.

The first fully-implantable pacemaker.

1960 CE

#11590

An implantable pacemaker in the heart. IN: Medical electronics: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Medical Electronics, Paris 24-27 June 1959. Edited by C. N. Smyth.

"This is the original report of the first fully implantable pacemaker that was designed by Elmqvist and surgically inserted under the skin of a patient in October 1958. It is an abstract of their presentation that sig…

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.

2018 CE

#10186

Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology.

1877 CE

#823.1

Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Reizwell und Contractionswelle des Herzmuskels.

Marchand obtained the first electrocardiogram. Using the differential rheotome he measured the time course of the potential variations from the frog’s heart.

1998 CE

#11591

Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.

1913 CE

#11679

Clinical electrocardiography.

The first textbook of electrocardiography.

1955 CE

#3047.7

Controlled cross circulation for direct-vision intracardiac surgery; correction of ventricular septal defects, atrioventricularis communis, and tetralogy of Fallot.

Controlled cross circulation (human heart–lung “machine”) for intracardiac surgery.

1910 CE

#11674

Das Elektrokardiogramm des gesunden and kranken Menschen.

The first comprehensive monograph on electrocardiography in any language.

1873 CE

#876

De la numération des globules rouges du sang I. Des méthodes de numération. II. De la richesse du sang en globules rouges dans les différentes parties de l'arbre circulatoire.

The beginning of blood-counting techniques. In his thesis Malassez provided the initial description of the hemocytometer, which he invented, but which was named by Gowers, who modified it in 1877. The trade issue of t…

1854 CE

#2759

Die bildliche Darstellung des menschlichen Arterienpulses.

Vierordt invented a sphygmograph which acted on the principle that indirect estimation of blood-pressure could be accomplished by measuring the counter-pressure necessary to obliterate the arterial pulsation. This was…

1880 CE

#11721

Die Messung des Pulses und des Blutdrucks am Menschen.

Probably the first book published on the messurement blood pressure in mankind. Mostly concerned with normal physiologic conditions, with a small section on fluctuations in illness. Digital facsimile from Google Books…

1889 CE

#2798

Du sphygmomanomètre et de la mésure de la pression artérielle chez l’homme à l’état normale et pathologique.

Potain devised a simple portable air sphygmomanometer for blood-pressure estimation.

1909 CE

#11680

Elektrokardiogramme.

This 37-page pamphlet was the earliest collection of information regarding electrocardiography. It contained "only single lead electrocardiograms, limited to mitral stenosis and hypertrophy of the right and left venti…

1818 CE

#2015

Experiments on the transfusion of blood by the syringe.

Blundell invented a syringe by means of which he was able to transfuse dogs.

1902 CE

#842

Galvanometrische registratie van het menschelijk electrocardiogram IN: Herinneringsbundel Prof. S.S. Rosenstein, pp.101-106.

First description of Einthoven's string galvanometer that recorded electrical changes occurring in the human heart. Includes the first illustration of an EKG (ECG) recording. Modern electrocardiography became a realit…

1906 CE

#11589

Het telecardiogram.

This paper includes the first published ECG tracing of atrial fibrillation. See W. Bruce Fye, "Tracing atrial fibrillation - 100 years," New Eng. J. Med., 355 (2006) 1412.

2001 CE

#7191

Machines in our hearts: The cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care.

1907 CE

#2825

Neuerung zur Messung des systolischen und diastolischen Druckes.

Fellner suggested the use of the stethoscope in the measurement of systolic and diastolic pressure.

1905 CE

#2818

On methods of studying blood pressure.

Korotkov introduced the modern method of applying the stethoscope to the brachial artery during blood-pressure examination with Riva-Rocci’s sphygmomanometer, for the purpose of investigating the sounds made by …

1824 CE

#11599

Original cases with dissections and observations illustrating the use of the stethoscope and percussion in the diagnosis of diseases of the chest: Also commentaries on the same subjects selected and translated from Auenbrugger, Corvisart, Laennec and others

This is the earliest English work on the stethoscope. It "includes the first English translation of Auenbrugger's book on percussion, selected sections from Laennec's book on auscultation, and detailed reports from 39…

1867 CE

#9869

Prize essay. Ancient transfusion and infusion compared with modern transfusion, infusion, and hypodermic or subcutaneous injections. Translated by Charles F. Wittig.

A comprehensive review, for the time, of the historical literature on these subjects. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

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.

1952 CE

#2883

Resuscitation of the heart in ventricular standstill by external electric stimulation.

External cardiac pacemaker. "The medical world took notice when Zoll announced in 1952 that he had successfully kept a patient alive through numerous episodes of ventricular standstill using a bedside device that deli…

1902 CE

#11573

Some experimental and clinical observations concerning states of increased intracranial tension.

According to Theodore Janeway (No. 11572), Cushing was the first to recommend routine measurement of blood pressure during surgery using the Riva Rocci sphygmomanometer.(See No. 2804). Cushing visited Riva Rocci at Pa…

1895 CE

#2801

Sphygmomanomètre pour mésurer la pression du sang chez l’homme.

A sphygmomanometer for registering the blood-pressure in the finger was invented by Mosso.

1853 CE

#5603

Sur un nouveau moyen d’opérer la coagulation du sang dans les artères, applicable à la guérison des anéurismes.

Pravaz invented galvanocautery.

1980 CE

#12270

Termination of malignant ventricular arrhythmias with an implanted automatic defibrillator in human beings.

First successful implantation of an automatic defibrillator (AICD), developed by Mirowski and Mower, and implanted by Watkins when he was a resident.

1904 CE

#11572

The clinical study of blood-pressure. A guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical and obstetrical practice, with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and disease.

The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1901 CE

#891

The colorimetric determination of haemoglobin.

Haldane’s hemoglobinometer and method for determination of hemoglobin.

2000 CE

#7995

The making of the pacemaker: Celebrating a lifesaving invention. Foreward [extensive] by Seymour Furman.

1998 CE

#13599

The see with a better eye: A life of R. T. H. Laennec

"....relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters.... "Laennec’s famous Treatise …

1880 CE

#13109

The spectroscope in medicine.

1958 CE

#3047.11

The treatment of complete heart block by the combined use of a myocardial electrode and artificial pacemaker.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Weirich, Gott, Lillehei. Attachment of a wire to the ventricular epicardium, and bringing it out percutaneously to an external pacemaker. This was a key development lea…

1959 CE

#3047.10

The use of intracardiac pacemaker in the correction of total heart block.

First use of pacemaker for Stokes–Adams syndrome, using dogs as subjects. External power source. See also Furman and Scawadel, John B., "An intracardiac pacemaker for Stokes–Adams seizures ," New Engl. J. …

1868 CE

#819.1

Über den zeitlichen Verlauf der negativen Schwankung des Nervenstroms.

Bernstein introduced the differential rheotome, and the first electrocardiograms were obtained with it by Marchand in 1877 (No. 823.1).

1901 CE

#840

Un nouveau galvanomètre.

Einthoven directed much of his research to the development and perfection of recording instruments. His most famous work was in connexion with his string galvanometer, a perfection of the instrument invented by J. S. …

1896 CE

#2804

Un nuovo sfigmomanometro.

Riva-Rocci’s sphygmomanometer marked the end of the search for a simple clinical method of estimating the blood-pressure. Abridged English translation in Ruskin (No. 3160.1).

2018 CE

#12362

Writing the pulse: The origins and career of the sphygmograph and its American masters.

"The definitive history of a technology that was used in research and practice in Europe and America beginning with the invention of the sphygmograph by German physiologist Karl Vierordt in 1854" (W. Bruce Fye).