Entry Nos. 2800–2899

1918

#2848

Ueber Vorhofflimmern beim Menschen und seine Beseitigung durch Chinidin.

Following Wenckebach’s discovery of the efficacy of quinine in the restoration of normal rhythm in auricular fibrillation. Frey showed that quinidine was the most effective of the cinchona alkaloids in this respect.

1919

#2849

Das Myxödemherz.

First attempt to restore the heart’s action by intracardiac injection.

1911

#2851

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…

1920

#2852

An electrocardiographic sign of coronary artery obstruction.

First description of the typical changes in the electrocardiogram in coronary thrombosis.

1920

#2853

Verhandlungen ärtzlicher Gesellschaften und Kongressberichte.

Saxl injected a mercurial compound (Novasurol), a powerful diuretic, for the treatment of cardiac failure.

1924

#2854

Rheumatic heart disease.

The first systematic textbook on rheumatic heart disease.

1924

#2855

A hitherto undescribed form of valvular and mural endocarditis.

“Libman–Sacks disease”.

1927

#2856

Congenital cardiac disease by Maude Abbott. IN: Modern medicine: Its theory and practice, edited by Sir William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 3rd ed., 4, 612-812.

1929

#2857

Medionecrosis aortae idiopathica (cystica).

Classic description of aortic medionecrosis.

1929

#2858

Die Sondierung des rechten Herzens.

The first cardiac catheterization on a living person. Forssmann catheterized his own heart. Historical note by N. Howard-Jones, Bull. Hist. Med.,1973, 47,524-6. English translation in Callahan, Keys & Key, Classics of…

1929

#2859

L’artériographie des membres de l’aorte et de ses branches abdominales.

Aortography. With A. C. Lamas and J. Pereira Caldas. Also published in Bull. Soc.méd.chir. Paris, 1929, 55,587-601.

1930

#2860

Bundle-branch block with short P-R interval in healthy young people prone to paroxysmal tachycardia.

Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, the best-known of the “pre-excitation syndromes”.

1932

#2861

The cardiac output of man in health and disease.

1932

#2862

A lecture on vaso-vagal syncope and the carotid sinus mechanism.

Vaso-vagal syncope.

1932

#2863

The electrocardiographic diagnosis of coronary occlusion by the use of chest leads.

Introduction of chest leads.

1934

#2864

Electrocardiograms that represent the potential variations of a single electrode.

Unipolar leads. With F. D. Johnston, A. G. MacLeod, and P. S. Barker.

1936

#2865

Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.

1937

#2866

Clinical roentgenology of the cardiovascular system.

1938

#2867

Effects of induced oxygen want in patients with cardiac pain.

Diagnosis of cardiac pain. With A. L. Barach and H. G. Bruenn.

1938

#2868

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.

1938

#2869

A practical method of visualization of the chambers of the heart, the pulmonary circulation, and the great vessels in man.

Introduction of angiocardiography, which for the first time revealed the internal structure of the living heart. A fuller account by the same authors is in Amer. J. Roentgenol.,1939, 41,1-17.

1939

#2870

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.

1941

#2871

Catheterization of the right auricle in man.

First investigations with the cardiac catheter as a clinical method of investigation. In 1956 Cournand in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Forssmann (No. 2858) and Richards (No. 2883.2) "for …

1941

#2873

Studies on congestive heart failure. I. The importance of restriction of salt as compared to water.

Low-sodium diet in heart failure.

1942

#2875

A simple indifferent electrocardiographic electrode of zero potential and a technique of obtaining augmented, unipolar, extremity leads.

Augmented unipolar leads.

1947

#2876

Electrokymograph for recording heart motion, improved type.

With B. R. Boone and W. E. Chamberlain.

1947

#2877

Circulatory failure studied by means of venous catheterization.

1947

#2878

Congenital malformations of the heart.

This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first "definitive textbook" of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created. The second edition, published in 1960, was ess…

1948

#2879

Thoracic aortography. Preliminary report.

With H. E. Hanson and J. Karnell.

1948

#2880

Penicillin in subacute bacterial endocarditis. Report to the Medical Research Council on 269 patients treated in 14 centres appointed by the Penicillin Clinical Trials Committee.

1950

#2881

Mechanism of the auricular arrythmias.

With E. Corday, I. C. Brill, A. L. Seller, R. W. Oblath, W. A. Flieg, and H. E. Kruger.

1950

#2882

Congenital heart disease.

A new classification proposed.

1952

#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…

1759

#2884

The life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon: Lord High Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An Account of the chancellor's life from his birth to the restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the same, and of his history of the grand rebellion, from the restoration to his banishment in 1667. Written by himself. Printed from his original manuscripts, given to the University of Oxford by the Heirs of the late Earl of Clarendon. 3 vols.

From the description given by the Earl of Clarendon in his autobiography, on vol. 1, p. 16, his father, Henry Hyde, almost certainly suffered from, and died of, angina pectoris. If this is really so, it is the first r…

1768

#2886

Lettre de M. Rougnon à M. Lorry, touchant les causes de la mort de feu Monsieur Charles, ancien capitaine de cavalerie, arrivé à Besançon le 23 février 1768.

Osler, Allbutt, and several other authorities believe this to be the description of an authentic case of angina, thus preceding Heberden’s classic account. Other eminent authorities consider the patient to have suffer…

1772

#2887

Some account of a disorder of the breast.

This classic description of angina pectoris is the substance of a paper read on July 21, 1768. Although descriptions of angina are to be found in the works of earlier writers, these mention only dyspnoea in their case…

1799

#2888

An inquiry into the symptoms and causes of the syncope anginosa commonly called angina pectoris.

This was a paper read before the Gloucester Medical Society in 1788, but not published until 1799. Largely confirming the earlier work of Heberden on the condition, Parry stated his conclusion that disease of the coro…

1867

#2890

On the use of nitrite of amyl in angina pectoris.

Lauder Brunton was responsible for the introduction of amyl nitrite for the alleviation of angina. Reprinted in F. A. Willius & T. E. Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 561-64.

1867

#2891

Angina pectoris vasomotoria.

Nothnagel, himself a victim of angina, described the vasomotor form of the disease.

1879

#2892

Nitro-glycerine as a remedy for angina pectoris.

Murrell introduced trinitrin (nitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate) in the treatment of angina.

1895

#2893

Klinisches über Diuretin.

In 1895 Askanazy proposed diuretin as a remedy for anginal pain.

1915

#2894

Diseases of the arteries, including angina pectoris. 2 vols.

Includes his suggestion of the aortic genesis of angina pectoris, and (vol. 2, p. 368) his mechanical theory of cardiac pain in coronary occlusion.

1920

#2895

Angine de poitrine guérie par la résection du sympathique cervicothoracique.

Cervical sympathectomy for the treatment of angina pectoris was first carried out by Jonnesco in 1916.

1922

#2896

Paravertebrale Novokaininjektionen zur Differentialdiagnose intra-abdomineller Erkrankungen.

First paravertebral injection for the treatment of angina pectoris.

1923

#2897

Angina pectoris.

A classic description of angina by “the beloved physician”, one of the greatest of all cardiologists. Mackenzie considered the disease to be due to cardiac failure.

1933

#2899

Congestive heart failure and angina pectoris: The therapeutic effect of thyroidectomy on patients without clinical or pathologic evidence of thyroid toxicity.

Thyroidectomy for congestive heart failure and angina pectoris. With D. D. Berlin.