Word: electrocardiographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive his father's horse & buggy. He soon knew that he meant to be a doctor himself; when his sister died of rheumatic fever, he began to focus his interest on heart diseases. Intern White was sent to England to buy the Massachusetts General Hospital's first electrocardiograph and learn to run the new-fangled thing. That was in 1913. Dr. White has been taking tracings of heart impulses ever since. He has gone on to become one of the world's top authorities on the classification and treatment of heart disease, and at his old school...
...Peter Bent Brigham Hospital complaining of palpitations and a "smothering sensation" had nothing wrong with her heart. Drs. W. Proctor Harvey and Samuel A. Levine ordered psychiatric treatment for her. Then the patient volunteered to test the effect of a drug (amyl nitrite) on heart sounds. At first the electrocardiograph gave normal readings; so did the phonocardiograph. But as soon as the patient saw the drug, her heart began a machine-gun beat. Scared nearly to death themselves, the doctors put the drug away and her heart went back to normal...
...salmon. It was not the first whale which had shied away from their "stethoscope": in earlier efforts the hunters had been unsuccessful. This time a husky cannery worker got a good grip on the patient : he drove home a pair of brass-headed harpoons wired to a portable electrocardiograph...
...itself, says Dr. Rosenbaum, the electrocardiograph cannot tell the heart's whole story. If the graph shows a minor deviation from normal, the doctor usually mutters something about "strain" and orders the patient to give up some of his favorite activities. This exaggerated caution causes many patients "serious psychologic and economic suffering...
...Rosenbaum does not recommend junking the electrocardiograph. He insists that its evidence be accepted as only part of the story-along with laboratory tests and thorough physical examination...