JAMES, WALTER B.; AND HORATIO B. WILLIAMS.


The electrocardiogram in clinical medicine: The string galvanometer and the electrocardiogram in health. [Philadelphia and New York: American Journal of Medical Sciences], November 1910. 4to (242 x 156 mm). 40 pp. Offprint. Publisher's printed wrappers, minor soiling.Provenance: Johns Hopkins Hospital (stamp to front cover)."THE FIRST CLINICAL PAPER ON ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY TO APPEAR IN AN AMERICAN JOURNAL" (Burch & DePasquale, A History of Electrocardiography, (1990), p 163. Referring to this paper, which includes 21 figures (most of them ECG tracings), Geddes and Wald explain that James and Williams "published the first ECG recordings in the western hemisphere. The theme of their first paper was tutorial and encouraged physicians to be interested in ECG. To make these recordings, James needed the expertise of Williams, who was technically trained in physics and was a physician as well" (Geddes and Wald, "Horatio B. Williams and the first electrocardiographs made in the United States," IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. 19: pp 117-121, 2000).