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A history of the American Heart Association's Council on Clincal Cardiology / W.B. Fye.

<p>This film consists of a number of close shots of patients showing signs of venous congestion. The film is in a number of lengths showing a number of patients which have been spliced together.</p>

1 film reel (3 min. total) : silent, color, 16mm.

Untitled clinical film showing venous pulse.

Annals of medical history.

Historical development of our knowledge of the circulation and its disorders / by Philip S. Roy.

<p>"The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived-to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion-effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? Rob Dunn's fascinating history of our hearts brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most"-- Provided by publisher.</p>

viii, 373 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm

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Cardiology - history

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A history of the American Heart Association's Council on Clincal Cardiology / W.B. Fye.

Untitled clinical film showing venous pulse.

Historical development of our knowledge of the circulation and its disorders / by Philip S. Roy.

The man who touched his own heart : true tales of science, surgery, and mystery / Robert Dunn.

60 Jahre Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Kardiologie 1948 - 2008 / Wilhelm Rutishauser. Unter Mitarbeit von Madeleine Turrian.

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Cardiology - history

Catalogue

A history of the American Heart Association's Council on Clincal Cardiology / W.B. Fye.

Untitled clinical film showing venous pulse.

Historical development of our knowledge of the circulation and its disorders / by Philip S. Roy.

The man who touched his own heart : true tales of science, surgery, and mystery / Robert Dunn.

60 Jahre Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Kardiologie 1948 - 2008 / Wilhelm Rutishauser. Unter Mitarbeit von Madeleine Turrian.

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