ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY.


SAMOJLOFF, ALEXANDER. Elektrokardiogramme. Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1909. 8vo (244 x 168 mm). 37, [1] pp; 22 figures. Original publisher's wrappers, untrimmed. Leaves unopened.FIRST EDITION OF "THE FIRST BOOK ON ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY" (Krikler). Born in Odessa in 1867, Samojloff developed a deep interest in cardiac physiology when he spent a year working with Pavlov (1893-1894). He met Einthoven in 1904 and had one of the Dutch physiologist's technicians make a string galvanometer for him, which he used to record some of the electrocardiograms reproduced in this very rare book. Samojloff bought one of the first commercially produced electrocardiographs in 1908. See Dennis Krikler, The Search for Samojloff: A Russian Physiologist in Times of Change. Br. Med. J. 295: pp 1624-1627, 1987. A beautiful copy and very rare, with 5 copies located worldwide in OCLC.WITH: an offprint of Krikler's article, inscribed "Bruce - in warm friendship, Dennis."