EINTHOVEN, WILLEM. 1860-1927.


Galvanometrische Registratie van het menschelijk Electrocardiogram. In Herinneringsbundel Professor S.S. Rosenstein. Leiden: Eduard Ijdo, 1902. 8vo. Text in Dutch, 1 photographic plate (with this article). Publisher's brown cloth, white titles. FIRST EDITION preciding Einthoven's 1903 article "Die galvanometrische Registrierung des menschlichen Elektrokardiogramms...," once considered to be the earliest known publication on the use of the electrocardiogram, by one year. But the author had published the identical monograph in Dutch in 1902. "First description of Einthoven's string galvanometer that recorded electrical changes occurring in the human heart. Includes the first illustration of an EKG (ECG) recording" (Garrison-Morton 842). Grolier Medicine 89 (illustrated, this copy exhibited).