SOME FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY

13 Principles of Electrocardiography

Some Recent Aspects of Electrocardiography.

IT would be ungracious for us as guests of this University not to remind ourselves that, without three great Italians, we might not have electrocardiography as we know it, perhaps no electrocardiography at all: Galvani, Volta and Matteucci (Fig. i). It was Matteucci, Professor of Physics in Pisa, who in I843 first reported electrical currents in strips of pigeons' heart muscle, a discovery from...

Fundamental Principles of Bacteriology

IDELY adopted in colleges and universities, the first edition of this standard text was generally regarded as one of the best available. Teachers like particularly the emphasis on chemistry, the thorough explanations of phenomena, the sound morphological and physiological material, and the wealth of excellent illustrations. The new second edition is really a new book: all material has been comp...

Fundamental Principles in Treatment

Dr. Harry Campbell is one of the most attractive and readable authors whom \ye know, and this little volume is altogether admirable. In it is garnered together the accumulated wisdom of many years of medical practice, of teaching students, and of experience. If Osier's " Aequanimitas " is?as it deserves to be?a classic, this volume is a worthy second; for it deals with the physician and patient...

Fundamental Trustworthiness Principles

Enormous benefits can result from basing requirements, architectures, implementations, and operational practices on well-defined and well-understood generally accepted principles. Furthermore, any set of principles is by itself clearly incomplete. However, considerable experience, understanding, and foresight are needed to use such principles productively. In this document, we itemize, review, ...