The Venous Pulse and Its Graphic Recording

The author has summarized in this monograph his observations of the venous pulse, and uses this as a basis for presenting some of his concepts. The booklet is beautifully prepared with clearly reproduced illustrations. This monograph is timely in bringing attention to a graphic method of heart examination which has been too much neglected recently. The literature is covered adequately and the text is profusely documented with illustrated case reports. The subject matter is divided into three sections: (1) Venous pulse, (2) the pneumocardiogram and (3) esophagocardiogram, and this is followed by an extensive bibliography. In the first and second sections, the author first develops the historical aspects and then describes the technic before considering the normal and abnormal configurations. The section on the esophocardiogram is rather brief.

It is regrettable that the subject matter at times becomes polemic, and that some of the concepts of the author will not