The Online Books Page

Heart -- Contraction

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Heart
• Myocardium
• Contraction

• Heart beat

• Heart -- Contraction -- Regulation

• Contraction of the heart
• Heart contraction
• Myocardial contraction
• Myocardium -- Contraction
• Systole (Cardiology)
• Systolic time interval

• Regulation of Cardiac Contractility (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences; 2011), by R. John Solaro (illustrated HTML at NIH)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Heart Rate (Springfield, IL, and Baltimore: C. C. Thomas, 1932), by Ernst P. Boas and Ernst F. Goldschmidt (page images at HathiTrust)

• The French Paradox and Beyond: Living Longer With Wine and the Mediterranean Lifestyle, by Lewis Perdue, Keith Marton, and Wells Shoemaker (HTML at french-paradox.net)

• The Heart (2001), by Matthias Rath (PDF at dr-rath-foundation.org)
• The French Paradox and Beyond: Living Longer With Wine and the Mediterranean Lifestyle, by Lewis Perdue, Keith Marton, and Wells Shoemaker (HTML at french-paradox.net)

• How to Prevent Heart Attacks (Milwaukee: Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, c1958), by Benjamin Pincus Sandler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bypass: A Memoir (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2000), by Joseph Anthony Amato (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Cardiology Explained (London: Remedica, 2004), by Euan A. Ashley and Josef Niebauer (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• How to Prevent Heart Attacks (Milwaukee: Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, c1958), by Benjamin Pincus Sandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disturbances of the Heart: Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure (second edition, ca.1916), by Oliver T. Osborne (Gutenberg text)
• The Lettsomian Lectures on Diseases and Disorders of the Heart and Arteries in Middle and Advanced Life, elivered Before the Medical Society of London, Session 1900-1 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1902), by J. Mitchell Bruce (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833), by R. J. Bertin, ed. by J. Bouillaud, trans. by Charles W. Chauncy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Span of Life, as Influenced by the Heart, the Kidneys and the Blood Vessels (Springfield, IL and Baltimore: C. C. Thomas, 1933), by Franklin R. Nuzum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging and Cost Effectiveness (1982), by William B. Stason and Eric Fortess (PDF files at Princeton)

• A Treatise on Auscultation and Percussion (translated from the fourth edition; London: Highley and Son, 1853), by Joseph Skoda, trans. by W. O. Markham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pulse and Rhythm (reprinted from the Popular Science Monthly, 1903), by Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States (prepublication version, 2010), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) Committee on Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake, ed. by Jane E. Henney, Christine Lewis Taylor, and Caitlin S. Boon (page images at NAP)

• The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life (blogged version of 1993 book, with reader comments and additional materials; scroll down page to see start of book), by Ray Kurzweil (HTML at kurzweilai.net)

• The Heart of the Home (picture edition; New York: American Heart Association, ca. 1949), by New York Heart Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Heart Journal (partial serial archives)
• Archives des Maladies du Coeur, des Vaisseaux et du Sang (partial serial archives)

• Understanding Heart Disease (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Arthur Selzer (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life (blogged version of 1993 book, with reader comments and additional materials; scroll down page to see start of book), by Ray Kurzweil (HTML at kurzweilai.net)

• The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women (2007), by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (PDF at NIH)

• ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• CPR, AED and First Aid: Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• BLS: Basic Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• CPR, AED and First Aid: Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)
• BLS: Basic Life Support Provider Handbook (Las Vegas: Satori Continuum Publishing, c2021), by Karl Disque (PDF at nhcps.com)

• A Most Certaine and True Relation of a Strange Monster or Serpent Found in the Left Ventricle of the Heart of John Pennant, Gentleman, of the Age of 21 yeares (London: G. Miller, 1639), by Edward May (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Gross Physiology of the Cardiovascular System (second edition; c2012), by Robert M. Anderson (Epub and Mobi at cardiac-output.info)

• On So-called Functional Heart Murmurs (reprinted from Montreal Medical Journal, 1899), by Maude E. Abbott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (Everyman's library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1906), by William Harvey, trans. by Robert Willis, contrib. by Ernest Albert Parkyn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey, trans. by Robert Willis (HTML at Fordham)

• A Most Certaine and True Relation of a Strange Monster or Serpent Found in the Left Ventricle of the Heart of John Pennant, Gentleman, of the Age of 21 yeares (London: G. Miller, 1639), by Edward May (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The School of the Heart, or, The Heart of It Self Gone Away From God, Brought Back Again to Him, and Instructed by Him, in 47 Emblems (third edition; London: Printed for Lodowick Lloyd, 1676), by Christopher Harvey (page images at Penn State)

• The Artificial Heart: Cost, Risk, and Benefits (1982), by Deborah P. Lubeck and John P. Bunker (PDF files at Princeton)