The increasing use of hypothermia by surgeons has awakened the interest of physiologists and cardiologists in the effects of lowering body temperature upon the heart. In spite of a numerous literature on the subject, it was considered that a new experimental study, by means of electro- and phonocardiography, would be of interest.
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