Heart-beat and pulse-wave / by C.S. Roy and J.G. Adami.

Date:
1890
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Credit: Heart-beat and pulse-wave / by C.S. Roy and J.G. Adami. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Re-printed from The Practitioner.] HEART-BEAT AND PULSE-WAVE. BY C. S. ROY, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Pathology, AND J. G. ADAMI, M.A., M.B., Demonstrator of Pathology, in the Univeriity of Cambridge. [From the Cambridge Pathological Laboratory] The clinical importance of an exact understanding of the meaning of graphic records of the heart and pulse, together with the fact that the graphic method is the most convenient for investigating certain physiological and pathological questions connected with the circulatory system, have induced us from time to time to make a few observations on the matters expressed by the title of our paper. In these observations we have employed various new instruments, which must be described in order that our tracings may be comprehended. We will try, however, to say as little about the methods as is compatible with giving a reasonably intelligible account of our results. These results, we believe, are of a kind which will be found of value at the bedside, although to make them clear it is 3