title: The mythical mystical cardiac afterload.
authors.affiliation: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Altschule
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D009626:Terminology as Topic