Early achievements in cardiovascular care as reflected in theJournal ofInternalMedicine

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The 150‐year anniversary issue

“…To highlight the development of another important area in medicine, Professor Lars Rydén from Karolinska Institutet discusses the dramatic progress in the field of cardiology during the last 150 years, and how it has been presented in the Journal . The very first article in this area, published in 1877, considered ventricular and atrial excitability in frogs, rabbits and eels.…”