Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2263

LUDWIG BRAUN (1867-1936) Über Herzbewegung und Herzstoss. Gustav Fischer 1898 123 pp., 2 fold. leaves of plates, illus. 25.7 cm.

Braun studied medicine in Vienna where he graduated in 1891. He did postgraduate work at Vienna's General Hospital where he qualified for internal medicine in 1900 and as lecturer in 1910. Braun remained at the General hospital his entire career specializing in cardiology and was especially interested in the physiopathology of the cardiovascular system. Nearly all of his books and other writings dealt with cardiology, and the present work is his first contribution to the literature. A detailed study of the heart's motion, it is the "first employment of cinematography to record the cardiac changes during all phases of heart of heart contraction" (Garrison-Morton 838).

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 838

Gift of John Martin, M.D.