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Historical Bibliography Updated: February 8, 2020

Die unregelmässige Herztätigkeit und ihre klinische Bedeutung.

Publication Details

Leipzig & Berlin: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1914 CE.

Wenckebach was the first to demonstrate (pp. 173-75) the value of quinine (“Wenckebach’s pills”) in the treatment of paroxysmal fibrillation. The same work contains a number of excellent descriptions of various forms of cardiac arrythmia. The second edition, written in co-operation with Heinrich Winterberg, was expanded to 2 vols, Leipzig, Engelmann, 1927.

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Entry Number#2844
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/3605
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Geographic Context

Publication places: Leipzig; Berlin