PACEMAKERS.


FURMAN, SEYMOUR. 1932-2006; DORIS ESCHER, ET. AL. Archive of 55 items authored by these pioneers of cardiac pacemakers (41 autographed by Furman and/or Escher). Includes: 1) The use of an intracardiac pacemaker in the correction of total heart block. 1959, pp. 245-248, IN: Surgical Forum (volume 9). Chicago 1959, 866pp. First edition; 2) An intracardiac pacemaker for Stokes-Adams seizures. 1959, pp. 943-948, IN: N. Engl. J. Med. (complete issue of November 5, 1959); 3) Use of an intracardiac pacemaker in the treatment of Stokes-Adams seizures, 1960, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 4) The use of artificial cardiac pacemakers, 1963, offprint; 5) A rapid method for insertion of the pacemaker catheter electrode, 1963, offprint. SIGNED (DE); 6) Transvenous electrical stimulation of the heart - I. 1964, offprint; 7) Transvenous electrical stimulation of the heart - II. 1964, offprint. SIGNED (DE); 8) Methods and materials in cardiac pacemakers, 1964, offprint. SIGNED (DE); 9) A comprehensive schema for management of pacemaker malfunction, 1966, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 10) Heart block: A method for rapid determination of causes of pacing failure in artificial pacemaking systems. 1966, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 11) Transvenous pacing of the phrenic nerves, 1966, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 12) Standby pacing in multiple arrhythmias, 1967, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 13) Heart block in coronary vascular disease, 1967, offprint. SIGNED (DE); 14) Acute and chronic endocardial threshold for cardiac stimulation, 1968, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 15) Clinical control of respiration by transvenous phrenic pacing, 1968, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 16) Experiences with myocardial and transvenous implanted cardiac pacemakers, 1969, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 17) Bedside transvenous cardiac pacing, 1969, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 18) Electronic analysis for pacemaker failure, 1969, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 19) Input signals to pacemakers in a hospital environment, 1969, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 20) Transvenous emergency cardiac pacing, 1969, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 21) The treatment of tachyarrhythmias by artificial cardiac pacing, 1969, offprint; 22) Emergency cardiac pacing in hyperkalemia, 1970, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 23) Emergency treatment of cardiac arrhythmias: Emphasis on use of electrical pacing, 1970, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 24) Decreasing electrode size and increasing efficiency of cardiac stimulation, 1971, offprint; 25) Transtelephone pacemaker clinic, 1971, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 26) The failure of triggered pacemakers, 1971, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 27) Modern methods of follow-up of patients with an implanted cardiac pacemaker, 1971, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 28) Emergency management of failing pacemakers, 1971, offprint SIGNED (SF); 29) Oscilloscopic and recent other methods of implanted pacemaker follow-up, 1971, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 30) Transvenous stimulation of the phrenic nerves, 1971, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 31) Emergency management of failing pacemakers, 1971, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 32) Types of pacemakers and their complications, 1973, offprint; 33) The paced human heart, 1973, offprint; 34) The ideal permanent pacemaker, 1973, offprint. SIGNED (SF and DE); 35) Results of long-term pacemaker implantation, 1973, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 36) A permanent pacemaker capable of external non-invasive programming, 1973, xerographic reproduction of offprint. SIGNED (SF); 37) Historical aspects of pacing, 1973, offprint. SIGNED (DE); 38) Pacemaker electronic circuits, 1975, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 39) Transtelephonic pacemaker monitoring: Five years later, 1975, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 40) The use of artificial pacemakers in acute myocardial infarction, 1976, offprint; 41) Pacemaker failures characterized by continuous direct current leakage, 1976, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 42) Temporary pacing in the treatment of arrhythmias, 1976, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 43) Cardiac pacing and pacemakers I. Indications for pacing brady arrhythmias, 1977, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 44) Cardiac pacing and pacemakers. VIII. The pacemaker follow-up clinic, 1977, offprint; 45) The utility of the programmable pacemaker, 1978, offprint; 46) Recent developments in cardiac pacing, 1978, offprint; 47) Historical aspects of cardiac pacing, 1980, offprint. SIGNED (DE); 48) The natural history of the paced patient with sick sinus syndrome as compared with patients with heart block, 1981, offprint. SIGNED (SF); 49) Use of cardiac pacemakers, 1981, offprint; 50) Role of implantable pacemakers in control of recurrent ventricular tachycardia, 1982, offprint; 51) William Glenn, ed., Cardiac Pacemakers. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. (vol. 111, art. 3, pp. 813-1122). New York 1964, stiff wrappers. SIGNED (DE); 52) Walter Tolles ed., Electronics in the Medical Specialties. Ann NY Acad. Sci. (vol. 118, art 1, pp. 1-133). New York 1964, stiff wrappers. SIGNED (DE); 53) Seymour Furman, ed., Advances in Cardiac Pacemakers. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. (vol. 167, art 2, pp. 515-1075). New York 1969, stiff wrappers. SIGNED (SF); 54) Furman and Escher. Principles and Techniques of Cardiac Pacing. New York 1970, 269pp. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED: "For Bruce Fye, With profound respect and admiration for one of our era's great book collectors. Seymour Furman. Absolutely, Doris J. W. Escher. December 2004"; 55) Furman and Escher. Modern Cardiac Pacing: A Clinical Overview. Bowie, MD, 1975, 314pp. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED: "For Bruce Fye, A sterling cardiologist and avid book collector. Seymour Furman. Absolutely, Doris J. W. Escher. December 2004.""The use of an intracardiac pacemaker in the correction of total heart block" and "An intracardiac pacemaker for Stokes-Adams seizures"are cited as Garrison-Morton 3047.10: "First use of pacemaker for Stoke-Adams syndrome, using dogs as subjects. External power source." German cardiologist-historian Berndt Luderitz describes Furman as "the father of transvenous endocardial pacing, which enabled modern electrophysiology including diagnostic and therapeutic modalities" (Luderitz, History of the Disorders of Cardiac Rhythm, 3rd ed, NY, 2002, p 230). Pioneering cardiac surgeon Dwight Harken described Furman as "the midwife to pacing" and Doris Escher as "the Grand Dame of cardiac pacing. Wherever you look, wherever you go in the world of pacing, from its exciting beginnings into the future, t-h-e-r-e-'s Doris" (Harken, Pacemakers, past-makers, and the paced: An informal history from A to Z (Aldini to Zoll), Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology,1991, pp 311-312). See also Kirk Jeffrey, Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care, (Baltimore, 2001).