A Brief History of Electrocardiography

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.

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http://www.ecglibrary.com/ecghist.html

Author:

The Electrocardiography Library

Excerpt:

Find out how electrocuting chickens (1775), getting laboratory assistants to put their hands in buckets of saline (1887), taking the ECG of a horse and following it to the slaughterhouse (1909), induction of indiscriminate angina attacks (1931), and hypothermic dogs (1953) have helped to improve our understanding of the ECG as a clinical tool. And why is the ECG labelled PQRST (1895)?