Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2337.5

ASHTON GRAYBIEL (1902-1995) Electrocardiography in practice W.B. Saunders company 1941 v, 319 p. diagrs. 21 x 29 cm.

Dr. Ashton Graybiel received his medical degree from Harvard in 1930. He joined the cardiology laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1934. From 1936-1943 at the Fatigue Laboratory at Harvard University he developed methods for measuring cardiovascular performance, including the test done on commercial pilots. During World War II he moved to the modern-day Naval Aerospace medical institute in Pensacola, FL where he stayed for the rest of his life. In the 1950s, at the request of NASA, he began studying the effects of weightlessness on the human body. He published more than 400 scientific papers, the last in 1994.

Gift of Robert N. Larimer, M.D.