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Word: cardiographs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second. This reduces the danger in X-ray work of burning a patient or sterilizing him, and therefore enables Dr. Reynolds to make exposures of as long as 20 seconds. To heart specialists the new method promises a new means of checking their findings by ordinary methods (stethoscopic, percussion, cardiograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Rays in Chicago | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Please be informed that "undaunted Upton Sinclair" has not been in a sanatorium for 25 years. Since the EPIC campaign started, the one time I have been in a hospital was recently for about an hour while accompanying my wife to have a cardiograph record made. UPTON SINCLAIR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...slapped him on the back and told him that his heart was as sound as a dollar. The underlying conditions which bring on an attack of angina pectoris usually exist in the arteries of the heart muscle. Yet the physician may not be able to detect them with a cardiograph or x-rays. In general, honest doctors admit that angina pectoris and its causes baffle them, that all they can do is to stand off Death for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Angina Pectoris | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...rejected all three, picked himself. A spider bit his little finger. A sharp pain shot through his hand, quickly spread up to his shoulder. Violent abdominal cramps doubled him up. His blood pressure plummeted. Gasping with pain, Professor Blair insisted on having his heart action recorded on a cardiograph before he would take narcotics. Two days in a hospital gave him time to reflect on the "black widow's" virulency. He has not yet analyzed its poison, but is sure it is not comparable to any other spider poison in his experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Professor v. Spider | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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