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The cause of fibrillation / by J.H. Burn.

Arrhythmia cordis. Paroxysmal and irritative tachycardia (connected or not with disease of the auric. vent. bundle of His). Auricular flutter ('auricular tachycardia' etc). Auricular and ventricular fibrillation. see also other collections. Postural heart attacks

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Bradycardia

Bradycardia, Heart block etc (second series)

Heart irregularities, resulting from the inhalation of low percentages of chloroform vapour, and their relationship to ventricular fibrillation / by A. Goodman Levy and Thomas Lewis.

Further studies on cardio-ventricular fibrillation : A. Influence of diethylaminoethoxy-2-diphenyl (F.1262), corynanthine and p.oxyphenyl-ethanol-methyl-amine (sympatol) on the benzol-adrenaline cardio-ventricular fibrillation in the dog B. The role of the hypersensitive action of adrenaline / by T.C.R. Shen and R. Marri.

Traumatic, degenerative, and 'idiopathic' ruptures; 'Missiles as emboli' and the whole question of 'vagabondage' of teterogenous elements in the blood steam: also migration (vagabondage) of foreign bodies: -(1) ordinary (though rare?) migration and (2) so-called ?'embolic migration' by the bloodstream. Trauma as a cause of auricular fibrillation. Missiles and foreign bodies in the myocardium and heart. Also on pneumo-pericardium (traumatic or spontaneous or therapeutic or due to various causes).

Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)

Traumatic affections, and various ruptures (also including idiopathic cases) of the Heart and great Blood vessels

<p>Dr, Mark Porter reports on conditions in which the heart rate is very fast, very slow or irregular. He is joined in the studio by Prof. Peter Weissberg of Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, and medical director of the British Heart Foundation. We hear about people's lives who have been saved by the presence of a pacemaker, about the latest drugs and treatments such as ablation.</p>

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Bradycardia, Heart block etc (second series)

Heart irregularities, resulting from the inhalation of low percentages of chloroform vapour, and their relationship to ventricular fibrillation / by A. Goodman Levy and Thomas Lewis.

Traumatic affections, and various ruptures (also including idiopathic cases) of the Heart and great Blood vessels

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Heart irregularities, resulting from the inhalation of low percentages of chloroform vapour, and their relationship to ventricular fibrillation / by A. Goodman Levy and Thomas Lewis.

Traumatic affections, and various ruptures (also including idiopathic cases) of the Heart and great Blood vessels

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