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Excerpt from The Diagnosis and Treatment of Abnormalities of Myocardial Function: With Special Reference to the Use of Graphic Methods In very recent years there has been added to clinical medicine a new chapter on the functional activity of the heart muscle. These pages have been written in a. Language almost wholly new and in characters hitherto unfamiliar. In conducting a series of lectures and laboratory exercises on cardiac pathology during the past five years in Columbia University it has become increasingly clear to the writer, that there was needed a manual which should present the knowledge more recently acquired in this field in a simple and condensed form to meet the requirements of the student and practitioner. The attempt has been made to approach the subject from the clinical side and to lay stress on the features which are of practical importance to those whose advice is sought on these questions of disordered cardiac activity. We have endeavored to use as simple a vocabulary as possible and yet to introduce the terms which in a brief period must be the daily companions of the physician who would be abreast of the times. If it should seem that we have consumed too considerable a portion of. Our space in a presentation and discussion Of graphic records it is because our new knowledge of myocardial function has been to a large extent obtained by these agencies, and we believe that these afford the easiest and simplest approach to a clear com prehension of the views at present held. Today's literature is teeming with these pictures of heart activity and a familiarity with them will make accessible the valuable additions which are daily being made to our knowledge in the fields of myocardial pathology and therapeutics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.