THE INTRODUCTION AND EARLY APPLICATION OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY.


EDLER, INGE; AND C. HELLMUTH HERTZ. Archive of 25 publications on the development of echocardiography (15 inscribed and/or autographed by Edler or Hertz). Including: 1) Edler and Hertz. The use of the ultrasonic reflectoscope for the continuous recording of the movements of heart walls. 1954, pp. 40-58, IN: Kunlg. Fysiografiska Sallskapets I Lund Forhandlingar (complete volume 24 in the original wrappers). Very fine; 2) Edler and Hertz. The use of the ultrasonic reflectoscope for the continuous recording of the movements of heart walls. 1954, 19pp. Xerographic copy of offprint. INSCRIBED: "Dr. W. Bruce Fye with my best regards, Inge Edler; 3) Edler and Hertz. The use of the ultrasonic reflectoscope for the continuous recording of the movements of heart walls. 1954, 19pp. Xerographic copy of offprint. INSCRIBED: "With the author's compliments, Hellmuth Hertz"; 4) Edler. The diagnostic use of ultrasound in heart disease. 1955, pp. 32-36, IN: Acta Medica Scand. (complete supplement 308 in original wrappers, which are dust soiled). Library stamp on title; 5) Hertz and Edler. Die registrierung von Herzwandbewungen mit helfe des Ultraschall-Impulsverfahrens. 1956, offprint. INSCRIBED: "With the author's compliments. Hellmuth Hertz; 6) Edler and Gustafson. Ultrasonic cardiogram in mitral stenosis. 1957, offprint. INSCRIBED: "To Professor Bruce Fye, Inge Edler; 7) Edler, Hertz et al. Hjartklaffmotiliteten registrerad med untrajud. 1960, offprint. INSCRIBED: "With the author's compliments. Hellmuth Hertz"; 8) Edler et al. Ultrasoundcardiography [includes 3 separate titles]. Ystad, Sweden, 1961, stiff wrappers, 124pp. First separate edition. Very fine. INSCRIBED: "Dr. W. Bruce Fye, With my best wishes, Inge Edler"; 9) Edler. Cardiac studies by ultrasounds. 1962. Xerographic copy of chapter. INSCRIBED "To Dr. Bruce Fye, Inge Edler" with his typewritten note attached "This is the first publication of echocardiography in USA. It is from 1962."; 10) Hertz. Ultrasonic heart investigation. 1964. Offprint. INSCRIBED: "With the author's compliments. Hellmuth Hertz"; 11) Ultrasonic engineering in heart diagnosis. 1967. Offprint. INSCRIBED: "With the author's compliments. Hellmuth Hertz"; 12) Edler and Lundstrom. Ultrasoundcardiography in infants and children. 1971, offprint. INSCRIBED: "To Professor Bruce Fye. Inge Edler"; 13) Hertz. The interaction of physician, physicists and industry in the development of echocardiography. 1973, offprint. INSCRIBED: "With the author's compliments. Hellmuth Hertz"; 14) The experience of twenty years working with echocardiography. 1974, offprint; 15) The experience of 20 years working with echocardiography. 1976, offprint; 16) Edler and Hertz. The early work on ultrasound in medicine at the University of Lund. Xerographic copy of 1977 article. INSCRIBED: "With the author's compliments. Hellmuth Hertz"; 17) Edler. The history of cardiac ultrasound. 1985, offprint. INSCRIBED: "To Professor Bruce Fye. Inge Edler"; 18) Hertz. Ultraljud-diagnostikens barndom - en aterblick fran Lundahorisonten. 1986, offprint. INSCRIBED: "With the author's compliments. Hellmuth Hertz" 19) Edler. Early echocardiography. 1991, offprint. INSCRIBED: "To Professor Bruce Fye. Inge Edler"; 20) Xerographic copy of a typewritten letter from Inge Edler to W. Bruce Fye, 10 May 1993. He mentions his early work in echocardiography as well of that of Claude Joyner of Philadelphia and Harvey Feigenbaum of Indianapolis.; 21) Edler. Xerographic copy of typewritten draft [sent to Fye with item 2], The History of Echocardiography that he was preparing for a publication in the history of Ultrasound that the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology was planning to publish. 13pp.; 22) Peter Wells. Milestones in cardiac ultrasound: Echoes from the past. 1993, offprint. SIGNED; 23) Alfred Parisi. The miracle of echocardiography: A clinician's perspective. 1997, offprint. INSCRIBED: "To Bruce Fye, Warm regards. Al Parisi."; 24) Edler and Lundstrom. Printed (stapled) pdf of The History of Echocardiography. 2004, 90pp.; 25) Singh and Goyal. The origin of echocardiography: A tribute to Inge Edler. 2007, extract. Important archive containing the history, development and application of echocardiography, including the landmark paper, "The Use of Ultrasonic Reflectoscope for the Continuous Recording of the Movements of Heart Walls," in three formats, cited as Garrison-Morton 2883.01: "Echocardiography, from which the field of medical ultrasonics developed." Mehta and Kahn, along with others, consider echocardiography to be one of the ten greatest discoveries in 20th century cardiology: "The pioneers of echocardiography were Inge Edler, a cardiologist at Lund University in Sweden, and Hellmuth Hertz, a Swedish physicist. Edler and Hertz borrowed a sonar device from a local shipyard, improved it, and recorded cardiac echoes from Hertz's own heart. With the development of this ultrasonic 'reflectoscope,' the new field of echocardiography emerged. Edler and Hertz first reported the continuous recording of movements of the heart walls in 1954 [in "The Use of Ultrasonic Reflectoscope ...."] and described the use of the ultrasonic cardiogram for mitral valve diseases in 1956 [in "Die registrierung von Herzwandbewungen mit helfe des Ultraschall-Impulsverfahrens"] ... In 1977, Edler and Hertz were joint recipients of the Lasker Prize, which is the American equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Medicine" (Mehta and Khan, "Cardiology's 10 greatest discoveries of the 20th century," Texas Heart Journal 29, 2002: pp 164-171). "In 1954, Edler and Hertz published their pioneering paper [in "The Use of Ultrasonic Reflectoscope...."] in English in Kunlg. Fysiografiska Sallskapets I Lund Forhandlingar. Distinguished though this journal is, it has never been one that is regularly read by the international scientific community ... however, a growing circle of ultrasound enthusiasts began to become aware of Edler's work, particularly after the prestigious English-language journal Acta Medica Scandinavia published a substantial supplement on Ultrasoundcardiography in 1961 ... Less than 40 years after the original work of Edler and Hertz, ultrasonic techniques have completely revolutionized the practice of cardiology" (Wells, "Milestones in cardiac ultrasound," 1993, see item 21).