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Parts of this overview were provided by Dean Jenkins and Stephen Gerred and their [ECGlibrary.com] | |||
The history of the ECG goes back more than one and a half century | The history of the ECG goes back more than one and a half century | ||
==1600-1800== | ==1600-1800== | ||
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In '''1887''' the English physiologist Augustus D. Waller from Londen published the first human electrocardiogram. He used a capillar-electrometer. <cite>Waller</cite><cite>Waller2</cite> | In '''1887''' the English physiologist Augustus D. Waller from Londen published the first human electrocardiogram. He used a capillar-electrometer. <cite>Waller</cite><cite>Waller2</cite> | ||
[[Image:Einthoven.gif|thumb|[[w:Einthoven|Willem Einthoven (1860-1927), the founder of the current ECG]]]] | |||
[[Image:einthECG1.png|thumb|ECG from Eindhoven's first publication. ''Pfügers Archiv March 1895, page 101-123'']] | |||
[[w:Einthoven|The dutchman Willem Einthoven]] (1860-1927) introduced in 1893 the term 'electrocardiogram'. He described in '''1895''' how he used a galvanometer to visualize the electrical activity of the heart. In 1924 he received the Nobelprize for his work on the ECG. He connected electrodes to a patienta showed the electrical difference between two electrodes on the galvanometer. We still now use the term: Einthovens'leads. The string galvanometer (see Image) was the first clinical instrument on the recording of an ECG. | [[w:Einthoven|The dutchman Willem Einthoven]] (1860-1927) introduced in 1893 the term 'electrocardiogram'. He described in '''1895''' how he used a galvanometer to visualize the electrical activity of the heart. In 1924 he received the Nobelprize for his work on the ECG. He connected electrodes to a patienta showed the electrical difference between two electrodes on the galvanometer. We still now use the term: Einthovens'leads. The string galvanometer (see Image) was the first clinical instrument on the recording of an ECG. | ||
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==1900-1950== | ==1900-1950== | ||
[[Image:stringgalvanometer.jpg|thumb|Einthoven's string-galvanometer, now in the Science Museum in Londen. The patient had to put his hands in salt baths to which the electrodes were connected. ''Image from the [http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/aboutus/history_center/conferences/che2004/Landman.pdf IEEE history society]''.]] | |||
In 1905 Einthoven recorded the first 'telecardiogram' from the hospital to his laboratoy 1.5 km away. | In 1905 Einthoven recorded the first 'telecardiogram' from the hospital to his laboratoy 1.5 km away. | ||