Word: electrocardiographs
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...Traffic. From the patient on the operating table are leads to an electrocardiograph that projects tracings on a wall screen. Also projected are lines showing the pulse, the heart sounds, and the pressure in each side of the heart. Attached to the table is an X-ray machine that will photograph the heart and major blood vessels after opaque dye is injected into the bloodstream. The surgeon can order these projected on a giant screen within minutes after an exposure in order to keep a running check on the effects of the operation...
...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...
...surprise to his stuffier colleagues when his latest contribution to the New England Journal of Medicine was titled: "The Relation of Heart Size to the Time Intervals of the Heartbeat, with Particular Reference to the Elephant and the Whale." It included notes on the slow heartbeats and long electrocardiograph waves of nine circus elephants, and an account of Dr. White's whale hunt off Alaska last summer when he used harpoons as electrodes to get EKG readings of a wild, white (beluga) whale (TIME...
...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...