ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY: MODERN TRENDS IN INSTRUMENTATION AND VISUAL AND DIRECT RECORDING ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY
Authors: F L DUNN, W E RAHM
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1950)

Article1 April 1950ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY: MODERN TRENDS IN INSTRUMENTATION AND VISUAL AND DIRECT RECORDING ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHYF. LOWELL DUNN, M.D., F.A.C.P., WALTER E. RAHM JR.F. LOWELL DUNN, M.D., F.A.C.P., WALTER E. RAHM JR.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-32-4-611 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThomas Lewis in the introduction to his "Mechanism and Graphic Registration of the Heart Beat" emphasized that scientific advancement depends upon the development of suitable instrumentation.1In the pioneer days of Einthoven and Lewis the problem was to design and construct an instrument which would permit a study of what has become electrocardiography. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: F. LOWELL DUNN, M.D., F.A.C.P.; WALTER E. RAHMJR.*Received for publication April 30, 1949.From the Departments of Medicine, and Physiology and Pharmacology of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine.The authors wish to express their appreciation for funds received from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund. 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