CHAUVEAU, JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE. 1827-1917; AND ETIENNE-JULES MAREY. 1830-1904.

CHAUVEAU, JEAN-BAPTISTE AUGUSTE. 1827-1917; AND ETIENNE-JULES MAREY. 1830-1904.
Appareils et Experiences Cardiographiques. Paris: J.B. Bailliere et Fils, 1863.
4to (277 x 203 mm). 23 illustrations in text. Later gray cloth, original wrappers bound in. Corners slightly bumped, wrappers browning at edges.

FIRST EDITION. "In 1863 Chauveau and Marey presented what is perhaps their definitive report on the entire problem of intracardiac pressure recording and its interpretation. The report gives full details of the design, construction, and operation of the recording system. The report is, furthermore, excellently illustrated and contains several reproductions of intraventricular pressure recordings ... This work unquestionably is a milestone in the physiology of the heart" (Cournand). Marey was a physiologist who focused on cardiac function and Chauveau a pioneering physiologist and veterinarian. Together they developed a technique to record intracardiac pressure between ventricles, and were the first to identify the isometric phase of contraction of the left ventricle. A. Cournand, "Cardiac Catheterization: Development of the Technique, Its Contributions to Experimental Medicine, and Its Initial Applications in Man" Acta. Med. Scand. suppl. 579 (1975), pp.3-32; Garrison-Morton 816.