An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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EINTHOVEN, Willem

5 entries
  • 840

Un nouveau galvanomètre.

Arch. néerl. Sci. exactes nat., 2 sér., 6, 625-33, 1901.

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. C. Schweigger, of Halle.

In 1924 Einthoven was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram."  See also No. 842.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › Tests for Heart & Circulatory Function › Electrocardiography, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Electrocardiogram, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 842

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

Leiden: Edward Ijdo, 1902.

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 reality through his work, and the string galvanometer finally displaced the capillary electrometer in the measurement of the electric current produced by the contracting heart. See also No. 840.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › Tests for Heart & Circulatory Function › Electrocardiography, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Electrocardiogram
  • 11589

Het telecardiogram.

Nederlandsch tijdschrift voor geneeskunde: Tevens orgaan der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Geneeskunst, No. 2, 1517-1547, 1906.

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.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Arrythmias, CARDIOLOGY › Tests for Heart & Circulatory Function › Electrocardiography, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments › Electrocardiogram
  • 846

Die Registrierung der menschlichen Herztone mittels des Saitengalvanometers

Pflüg. Arch. ges. Physiol., 117, 461-72, 1907.

Phonocardiography.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES › Medical Instruments
  • 12338

Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven with bibliography, biographical notes and comments by H. A. Snellen.

Leiden, 1977.


Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › Tests for Heart & Circulatory Function › Electrocardiography