title: [Early history of cardiological diagnostics].
abstract: The history of modern cardiology begins with William Harvey, the history of cardiodiagnostics, however, with William Heberden and the inaugurators of percussion and auscultation. Nearly all methods needed a long initial period, before they stood the test as routine measures. The revision of positive judgments of their value became necessary whereever new methods entered into competition with techniques which proved their value for long years and which apparently could not be renounced. Up to now schemes of thinking remained characteristic for the heart, the historical basis of which was shown in the present paper.
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000266:history*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005602:France; D005858:Germany; D006326:Heart Auscultation; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010474:Percussion; D014481:United States
vernacular_title: Aus der Frühgeschichte der kardiologischen Diagnostik.