Thursday, October 31, 2019

EKG invented in 1901

https://twitter.com/tbouthillet/status/1189856879138234368

The first reliable electrocardiograph was Willem Einthoven's string
galvanometer invented in 1901. The subject had to place his/her hands
and feet in buckets of salt water to record a signal. Hence, the "limb
leads" we use today! Einthoven won a Nobel Prize in 1924.

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