CUSHNY, ARTHUR. 1866-1926; and CHARLES W. EDMUNDS. 1873-1941.


"Paroxysmal Irregularity of the Heart and Auricular Fibrillation." [In:] Studies in Pathology, pp. 95-110. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University, 1906. 4to (260 x 188 mm). Publisher's blue cloth, publisher's presentation slip tipped in. Slight warping to boards, uneven toning to presentation slip and front free endpaper, library stamps.Provenance: Royal Society of Edinburgh (stamps)."FIRST RECOGNITION OF AURICULAR FIBRILLATION IN MAN" (Garrison-Morton 2822). Writes Fye, "Their report was prompted by the case of a 64-year-old woman who had undergone surgery at the University of Michigan Hospital five years earlier. On palpation, her pulse was very irregular; this finding was documented by arterial pulse tracings.... Cushny and Edwards speculated that the woman's totally irregular pulse was a manifestation of the same arrhythmia they had observed in some dogs - atrial fibrillation" ("Tracing Atrial Fibrillation," 2006).