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Concept

Pulse

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  • De affectionibus cordis libri tres / Hannibalis Albertinii.
  • Handbook of the sphygmograph : being a guide to its use in clinical research : to which is appended a lecture delivered at the Royal College of Physicians on the 29th of March 1867 on the mode and duration of the contraction of the heart in health and disease / By J. Burdon Sanderson.
  • The sphygmograph : its history and use as an aid to diagnosis in ordinary practice / R.E. Dudgeon.
  • A young physician taking the pulse of a woman with whom he is flirting, a young man passing by raises his hat. Colour stipple engraving by J. Parker, 1783, after J. Northcote.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: three staff listen for a patient's heart beat and a doctor reads a man's pulse. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
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    A man suffering from dropsy dictating his will while a physician takes his pulse, he is surrounded by his wife and friends. Engraving.

    | Reference: 21623i
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    Heart-beat and pulse-wave / by C.S. Roy and J.G. Adami.

    | Date: 1890
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    Bdud rtsi sñiṅ po yan lag brgyad pa gsaṅ ba man ṅag gi rgyud las blta reg gñis kyis nad ṅos bzuṅ thabs rgyas par spros pa reg mthoṅ don ldan / Zla-ba-tshe-riṅ gis brtsams.

    Zla-ba-tshe-riṅ, 1942- | Date: 2002
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    Anakrotie und Katakrotie der Pulscurven / von Dr. Leonard Landois.

    Landois, L. (Leonard), 1837-1902. | Date: [1865]
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    From rebellious palpitations to the discovery of auricular fibrillation : contributions of Mackenzie, Lewis and Einthoven / M.E. Silverman.

    Silverman, M. E. | Date: 1994
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