One-fourth of all deaths in industrialized countries result from coronary heart disease. A
century of research has revealed the essential causative agent: cholesterol-carrying low …

ABSTRACT The Lambeth Conventions are guidelines intended to be of practical value in
the investigation of arrhythmias induced by ischaemia, infarction, and reperfusion. They …

The invention of the electrocardiograph by Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven in 1902
gave physicians a powerful tool to help them diagnose various forms of heart disease …

Membrane cholesterol is essential for cell membrane properties, just as serum cholesterol is
important for the transport of molecules between organs. This review focuses on cholesterol …

At the turn of the twentieth century, physicians hoped that new instru-3SR mental methods of
medical diagnosis would yield increased objectivity as well as greater precision. However …

IN 1940 the physiologist Carl Wiggers claimed," De-layed recognition of important
physiological discover-ies frequently continues untenable and wrong points of view …

We gathered in Los Angeles in February 1991 to consider how medical technology is
shaping the way in which we look at the world. The message implicit in the quotation from …

This paper was originally written for a conference entitled 'The Future of Medical History.
Now it ought to be clear–certainly to historians–that the future of anything is hard to predict; …

Zusammenfassung Die Geschichte der Coronarerkrankungen muß bis zu der Erkenntnis,
daß der in der Herzgegend empfundene Schmerz nicht der einzige Ausdruck dieser …

James B. Herrick saw medicine becoming more dependent on science but was unwilling to
let the human values of the family doctor vanish. His philosophy was summarized in the …