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

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.

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.

"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"--

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

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.

The film demonstrates two methods of estimating the cardiac output in man. Animated diagrams illustrate the earlier efforts of Stephen Hales, and also explains the Fick principle of estimating cardiac output. Measurement of oxygen consumption by spirometry is followed by technical details of cardiac catheterisation and sampling of blood from the right heart and the brachial artery. The analysis of samples on a Haldane blood gas apparatus is shown with diagrammatic explanations. Optical pressure recording from the right heart by means of a strain gauge is illustrated. The Hamilton dye method of estimating cardiac output is then shown. The principles involved are illustrated in animated diagrams, and the actual technique of dye injection and collection of arterial samples is seen. The results of the two methods of estimating cardiac output are compared showing reasonably good agreement of the two techniques. Features Werner Forssman describing his method of catheterisation, developed in 1929.

1 Digibeta (36 min.) : sound,color, PAL. 1 DVD (36 min.) : sound,color, PAL.

Cardiac output in man.

Almanach medicíny

330 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.

Česká kardiologie a kardiologové : črty z historie / Zdeněk Fejfar et al.

Medical history.

x, 178 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm.

The emergence of modern cardiology / edited by W.F. Bynum, C. Lawrence, and V. Nutton.

An updated version of the 1928 film of the same title made by Sir Thomas Lewis and Sir Henry Dale, a film made for the Royal College of Physicians' commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the publication of William Harvey's book on the circulation of the blood. Introduced and narrated by Sir Henry Dale, it portrays the life and works of William Harvey (1578- 1657), with Dr. Len Goodwin, FRS, reading "in Harvey's voice" from the 1847 English translation of "De Motu Cordis"(1628). Harvey's experimental reasoning is explained with the aid of dissections of the heart and animated diagrams of the circulation of the blood.

1 film reel (34 min.) : sound, color, 16mm. 1 film reel (sound neg.) (34 min.) : sound, 16mm. 1 film reel (34 min.) : sound, black and white

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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.

Cardiac output in man.

Česká kardiologie a kardiologové : črty z historie / Zdeněk Fejfar et al.

The emergence of modern cardiology / edited by W.F. Bynum, C. Lawrence, and V. Nutton.

William Harvey and the circulation of the blood.

Ancient Indian medicine, with particular reference to cardiology / by Rustom Jal Vakil.

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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.

Cardiac output in man.

Česká kardiologie a kardiologové : črty z historie / Zdeněk Fejfar et al.

The emergence of modern cardiology / edited by W.F. Bynum, C. Lawrence, and V. Nutton.

William Harvey and the circulation of the blood.

Ancient Indian medicine, with particular reference to cardiology / by Rustom Jal Vakil.

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