Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2150

SIR JAMES MACKENZIE (1853-1925) Diseases of the heart. Henry Frowde 1908 xix, 386, 32 pp., [10] leaves of plates ([5] col., 5 fold.), illus. 24.4 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 2149

The present work was an instant success and was soon translated into several foreign languages. In it Mackenzie summarized the major aspects of his work using many reproductions of tracings of abnormal pulse waves to illustrate the various types of cardiac irregularities he described. It was in this work that he first described nodal arrhythmia now known as auricular fibrillation. Mackenzie's broadly based study of heart diseases, his polygraph and Einthoven's electrocardiograph (see No. 2231) were significant advancements in man's knowledge of the heart and prepared the way for a new era in cardiology.

See Related Record(s): 2231

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2826; Waller 6115 (1918 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.