[The beginnings of electrocardiography at the Prague Medical School].
The authors describe the beginnings of development of electrocardiography at the Prague Medical Faculty of Charles-Ferdinand and Charles University resp. The first results of the new method came from the physiological laboratory of Ewald Karl Konstantin Hering (1834-1918), who contributed to electrocardiography by explaining the mechanism of atrial fibrillation and to Richard Hans Kahn (1876-1941) who was the first to publish electrocardiographic changes after temporary block of coronary artery blood flow in the dog. Clinical application and the promotion of electrocardiography in this country is among others in particular from Václav Libenský (1877-1938), Klement Weber (1890-1971) and Frantisek Herles (1900-1991) whose name became for half a century the synonym for electrocardiography.
Kolár
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II. interní klinika VFN a 1. lékarské fakulty UK, Praha.
Aschermann
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Boudík
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Horký
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