PRESENT STATUS OF THE BALLISTOCARDIOGRAM
Authors: I STARR
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1952)

Article1 November 1952PRESENT STATUS OF THE BALLISTOCARDIOGRAMISAAC STARR, M.D.ISAAC STARR, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-37-5-839 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe President of The American College of Physicians requested me to speak at the annual meeting and then to report in this journal on the present status of the ballistocardiogram, and so this presentation will take the form of a critical essay rather than of the usual review article. I shall aim not only to summarize the more interesting features of a field which is rapidly growing in many directions, but also to view this field against the background of the changing medical interests and conceptions characteristic of our times. As no record is better than the instruments which produce...Bibliography1. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*An amplified version of a presentation delivered at the Thirty-third Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Cleveland, Ohio, April 21, 1952.From the Department of Therapeutic Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.Much of my own work mentioned herein was supported by a research grant from the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service. 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