Oliver-Sharpey lectures on the nature of flutter and fibrillation of the auricle : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, April 14th, 1921 / by Thomas Lewis.

  • Thomas Lewis
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1921
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Credit: Oliver-Sharpey lectures on the nature of flutter and fibrillation of the auricle : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, April 14th, 1921 / by Thomas Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    auricular fibrillation now stands. If I am to do this in the time at our disposal I shall be unable to bring before you anything but a small part of the evidence upon which our conclusions rest. Assuring you now that I shall draw no conclusion lightly nor without most closely weighing all the evidence, I must, from the force of circumstances, ask you to take much for granted. In another direction, also, and for similar reasons, I crave indulgence. It will be impossible for me suitably to bring into the compass of these lectures the names of many contributors to this ia. I.—A diagram illustrating the progress of a single wave passing through a ring of muscleas a result of stimulating itata. The black portion of the ring represents the refractory state, and the figure shows itS progress through the ring till it involves the whole (4); later the figure shows its subsidence. field of knowledge. This historical aspect has been dealt with recently and fully in another place. In so far as I have myself contributed during the last two years, I have contributed with my immediate collaborators; we have worked as a team under the auspices of the Medical Research Council; the names of my co-workers are Dr. Thomas Cotton and Dr. A. N. Drury of this country; DrallS, Feil, Desw.Destroud, and Dr Aw bulcersc: the United States, and Dr. C. C. Iliescu of Bucharest. From these introductory remarks I may proceed to my subject.
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