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Last week Dr. Starr told the National Academy of Sciences meeting in Philadelphia about an ingenious device: a balancing table, called the "ballistocardio-graph." A bed-size table is suspended from the ceiling on wires, three feet above the floor. While a patient lies quietly, the table oscillates back & forth to the throb of his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heart Recoil | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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