1865 HOLMGREN, Alarik Frithiof (1831 – 1897)
Method att objectivera effecten av ljusintryck pa retina.
Discovery of the electroretinogram, the beginning of the use of electrophysiological methods for studying visual systems.
GMN 1511.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2602
1883 BELL, Alexander Graham (1847 – 1922)
Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10352
1911 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)
The mechanism of the heartbeat: With special reference to its clinical pathology.
Sir Thomas Lewis was a pioneer in the application of electrocardiography to clinical medicine. His book was both an exhaustive treatise on the subject for its time, and a valuable bibliographical source. Second editio…
GMN 2851 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/709
1912 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)
Electro-cardiography and its importance in the clinical examination of heart affections.
GMN 2840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3586
1918 BOUSFIELD, Guy William John (1893 – 1974)
Angina pectoris: changes in electrocardiogram during paroxysm.
First electrocardiogram recorded (1917) from a patient with angina pectoris.
GMN 2894.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4370
1929 BERGER, Johannes (“Hans”) (1873 – 1941)
Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen.
First recording of human brain activity, which Berger called electroencephalography. Berger actually recorded his first EEG in 1924, but did not publish the technique until 1929. He showed that the electrical activity…
GMN 1446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2245
1932 WOLFERTH, Charles Christian (1887 – 1965); WOOD, Francis Clark (1901 – 1990)
The electrocardiographic diagnosis of coronary occlusion by the use of chest leads.
Introduction of chest leads.
GMN 2863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4132
1934 WILSON, Frank Norman (1890 – 1952); ET AL
Electrocardiograms that represent the potential variations of a single electrode.
Unipolar leads. With F. D. Johnston, A. G. MacLeod, and P. S. Barker.
GMN 2864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4137
1936 SCHELLONG, Fritz (1891 – 1953)
Elektrographische Diagnostik der Herzmuskelerkrankungen.
Introduction of the vectorcardiogram.
GMN 2865.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4158
1937 GOLLA, Frederick Lucien (1878 – 1968); ET AL
The electro-encephalogram in epilepsy.
Demonstration of the changes in the electro-encephalogram in epilepsy. With S. Graham and W. Grey Walter.
GMN 4824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1637
1938
Praecordial leads in electrocardiography. A joint memorandum of a committee of the Cardiac Society of Gt. Britain and Ireland and the Committee of the American Heart Association.
PRECORDIAL LEADS
Also in Amer. Heart J.,1938, 15,107-08, 235-39. Precordial leads are also called unipolar leads.
GMN 2868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4177
1939 STARR, Isaac (1895 – 1989); ET AL
Studies on the estimation of cardiac output in man, and abnormalities in cardiac function, from the heart’s recoil and the blood’s impacts; the ballistocardiogram.
Introduction of the ballistocardiogram. With A. J. Rawson, H. A. Schroeder, and N. R. Joseph.
GMN 2870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4189
1941 RIGGS, Lorrin Andrews (1912 – 2008)
Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.
Electroretinography
GMN 1533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2859
1942 GOLDBERGER, Emanuel (1913 – 1994)
A simple indifferent electrocardiographic electrode of zero potential and a technique of obtaining augmented, unipolar, extremity leads.
Augmented unipolar leads.
GMN 2875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4197
1964 BURCH, George Edward (1910 – 1986); DEPASQUALE, Nicholas P. (1927 – 2018)
The history of electrocardiography.
Reprinted with new introduction by Joel D. Howell, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
GMN 3161.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4100
1994 FYE, W. Bruce (1946 – )
A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography.
GMN 13823 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16112
