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SASSONIA, Ercole [HERCULES DE SAXONIA] (1551 – 1607)

1551 – 1607

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1603 CE

#2726

De pulsibus libri tres nunc primum in lucem editi.

Sassonia emphasized the importance of the pulse in diagnosis, and provided the first recorded description of heart block. Pages 57-61 contain graphic representations of the pulse using dashes of unequal length. Digita…