Volume 5 Issue 2 – Spring 2013

Feature Articles

Metaphoric hearts…Frank Gonzalez-Crussi

Leonardo’s heart…Larry Zaroff

Auscultation …Daly Walker

Dawn of Cardiology

Raymond de Vieussens: anatomy & physiology…Jeremy Parker

William Harvey: circulation of the blood…Philip Liebson

William Withering: foxglove & digitalis…George Dunea

René Théophile Laënnec: auscultation & stethoscope…Philip Liebson

Jean Corvisart: founder of clinical medicine…George Dunea

New Horizons

Willem Einthoven: string galvanometer…Philip Liebson

James Mackenzie: polygraph & arrhythmias…George Dunea

Thomas Lewis: clinical electrocardiography…George Dunea

Korotkov & Anitchkov: hypertension & atherosclerosis …Philip Liebson

Clifford Allbutt: essential hypertention…George Dunea

James Bryan Herrick: myocardial infarction…Philip Liebson

Landmarks

Lewis Atterbury Conner: American Heart Association…Philip Liebson
Irving Wright & Jay McLean: anticoagulants…Philip Liebson
EKG diagnosis of myocardial infarction…Philip Liebson
Endocarditis…Ramin Sam

Breakthroughs

Cournand & Richards: cardiopulmonary physiology…Philip Liebson
Andreas Roland Gruentzig: coronary angioplasty…Mahesh Raju
Adrian Kantrowitz: ventricular assists…Philip Liebson
Christiaan Barnard: first heart transplant…Philip Liebson
Robert E. Gross: cardiovascular surgery…Philip Liebson
René Favaloro: coronary bypass surgery…Earl Smith

Stories of the Heart

Wild heart of Panama…Rachel Kowalczyk
Saving hearts and art…Riccardo Benvenuto & Maria Serratto-Benvenuto
Coronary heart disease…Matko Marušić

Patients & Diseases

Mr. Hemphill…Lynn Dion
Reflections on treatment for drug dependence…Carla Treloar

Becoming a Medical Professional

Humanism in medicine…Annie Yeh
Perfection of illness…Zohaib Ahmad

Art & Medicine

Does art belong in a doctor’s office?…Sally Metzler
Van Orley – physician in Brussels…George Dunea
Andrea del Sarto – plague in Florence …George Dunea

Hektorade

The heart in Star Trek…Victor Grech
The last of the “just”…R. S. Steinberg
All life is a gift…George Dunea

Poetry

Broken heart …Judy Schaefer

Past articles on the heart