ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY.


BARKER, LEWELLYS F. 1867-1943. "Electrocardiography and Phonocardiography: A Collective Review." [Offprint from:] The Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, Vol XXI, No 237, December 1910. 8vo. 61 figures. Publisher's printed wrappers, minor fading to margins;WITH: "On Some of the Clinical Methods of Investigating Cardio-Vascular Conditions." [Offprint from:] The Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, Vol XX, 1909. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers.WITH: "The Electrocardiogram in Clinical Diagnosis." [Offprint from:] The Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol LV, Oct 15, 1910. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers.THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE AMERICAN REVIEW OF ELECTROCARDIOGRAPY. Barker succeeded William Osler as Physician-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1905. An American pioneer of electrocardiography, he published this important review in December 1910, just one year after the first electrocardiograph machine arrived in the United States. "Barker reorganized the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins to emphasize research as well as teaching; established laboratories within the divisions of the department to investigate the medical problems encountered on the wards. He stressed the importance of research laboratories in clinical medicine both for studying fundamental disease processes and as an aid to diagnosis" (DAMB 36). See Garrison-Morton 3798, 4584 and 7336. Accompanied by an autographed offprint of W. Bruce Fye, "A history of the origin, evolution, and impact of electrocardiography," 1994.