Plate from Augustus D. Waller, Introductory address on the electromotive properties of the human heart. Augustus Desiré Waller (July 18, 1856 - March 11, 1922) was a British physiologist. He studied medicine at Aberdeen University, where he qualified in 1878 and obtained his in 1881. In 1884 he became a lecturer in physiology at St Mary’s Hospital. In 1887 he used a capillary electrometer to record the first human electrocardiogram.

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Augustus Waller, ECG Demonstration, 1888

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