Cardiology
MAS Ahmed and Victoria Turnock
The history of the stethoscope
Chris Arthur
Carrie Barron
Character, genius, and a missing person in medicine
Riccardo Benvenuto and Maria Serratto-Benvenuto
Emily Boyle
Frank Buchar
Joseph Burns and Yehuda Shapir
Richard J. Bing: reflecting on a century of creativity and innovation
George Dunea
William Withering and the foxglove
Jean Corvisart: Napoleon’s physician
Sir James Mackenzie — 1853-1925
Sir Thomas Lewis: the promise of electrocardiography
Austin Flint: eminent American physician
Michael Servetus (ca.1511-1553)
Realdo Colombo (ca.1515-1559)
Ibn al-Nafis and the pulmonary circulation
Dominic Corrigan (1802-1880)
Cecil Rhodes: The man with a hole in his heart
Daniel M. Gelfman
Remembering Sir Thomas Lewis’ contribution to understanding heart failure
Daniel M. Gelfman and Thad E. Wilson
The importance of the “The David Sign”
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
Victor Grech
Richard de Grijs and Daniel Vuillermin
Measure of the heart: Santorio Santorio and the Pulsilogium
Jason J. Han
Coronary moments: reflections on the impossible anastomosis
Janice Kehler and Chris Kehler
Grokking: Cardiac rehabilitation by another name
Philip R. Liebson
René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec and the stethoscope
Willem Einthoven and the string galvanometer
The First Russian Revolution: 1905-1913
Lewis Atterbury Conner: cofounder of the American Heart Association
The early history of anticoagulants: 1915–1948
The electrocardiographic diagnosis of myocardial ischemia and infarction: 1917-1942
Cournand and Richards: pioneers in cardiopulmonary physiology
Adrian Kantrowitz: the IABA and the LVAD
Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant
Dr. Robert E. Gross and first operations in cardiovascular surgery
Donatella Lippi, Giuseppe Mascia, and Luigi Padeletti
The pulsilogium and the diagnosis of love sickness
Matko Marusic
Jeremy Parker
Jimmy Tam Huy Pham
John Brereton Barlow: The “Mitral Valve” Cardiologist
Harold James Charles (Jeremy) Swan: the man behind the “sailing catheter”
Michael Potts
A theologian answers questions about the heart: St. Thomas Aquinas’ De Motu Cordis
Mahesh Raju
Fiona Robertson
Stuart Rosenbush
Ramin Sam
Terry Wahls
Daly Walker
Göran Wettrell
Maude Abbott and the early rise of pediatric cardiology
Echocardiogram: the first ultrasound picture of the moving heart
Early clinical and molecular discoveries in Long QT Syndrome
Jean-Baptiste de Sénac and his early textbook on cardiology
Two giants in thoracic surgery: Clarence Crafoord and Åke Senning WIN ’23
Vignettes
Paul Wood on history-taking
William Heberden on angina pectoris, 1772
Human heart in Descartes’s De Homine
William Harvey before King Charles I
