Waller--pioneer of electrocardiography.

Augustus Desiré Waller (1856-1922).

The electrocardiograph is one of the most important instruments with which to examine the human heart and is in constant use all over the world, yet we doubt whether many physicians know who was the first man to demonstrate that the electrical response accompanying the movement of the human heart could easily be shown by a clinical application of a relatively simple instrument. In the early par...

ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Paediatric electrocardiography.

Electrocardiography

Turner, O.B.E., M.A., M.D., F.R.GP., F.R.C.P.E. (Pp. viii + 155; figs. 177. 20s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1963. THIS book is a collection of articles on "Clinical Electrocardiography in General Practice" published by the author in the Practitioner in 1962. It is intended for those who wish to learn some of the elementary principles of a complicated subject. The value and limi...

Electrocardiography

serves as a corroborator of clinical observations, and not as the sole means of making the diagnosis, the criticism is not justified. This conclusion applies to electrocardiography that has now been established as a standard part of cardiovascular diagnosis. The publication of another edition of Dr. Maher's treatise within two years shows its popularity. The book begins with a brief resume of t...

Diagnosis of Ventricular Tachycardia Electrocardiography

Les signes clectrocardiographiques classiques nc sont pas toujours suMisants pour ·le diagnostic de la tachycardie ventriculaire. Nous avons insiste d'une part sur !'importance diagnostique des complex de ca· ptures et d'auters part sur l'import.anre des procedcs nouveux Tels :  1- Enrcgishemcnt du potentiel du faisreau de  2- Stimulation references endocavitaire.