An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

FORSSMANN, Werner Theodor Otto

2 entries
  • 2858

Die Sondierung des rechten Herzens.

Klin. Wschr., 8, 2085-87, 2287, 1929.

The first cardiac catheterization on a living person. Forssmann catheterized his own heart. In 1956 he shared the Nobel Prize with Cournand (No. 2871) and Richards (No. 2883.2) for his work on cardiac catheterization. Historical note by N. Howard-Jones, Bull. Hist. Med.,1973, 47,524-6. English translation in Callahan, Keys & Key, Classics of Cardiology, Vol. 3, 250-55.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › Interventional Cardiology, CARDIOLOGY › Interventional Cardiology › Cardiac Catheterization
  • 12233

Selbstversuch. Erinnerungen eines Chirurgen.

Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1972.

Translated into English by Hilary Davies as Experiments on myself. Memoirs of a surgeon in Germany (London: St. Martin's Press, 1974).



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Autobiography, CARDIOLOGY › Interventional Cardiology › Cardiac Catheterization