Rustom Jal Vakil: His contributions to cardiology

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 161-170

  Isharwal, Sumit ^a   Gupta, Shubham ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

20th cent; Epidemiology, cardiovascular; History of medicine; Hypertension; Rauwolfia; Rustom Jal Vakil

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHONIUM; RAUWOLFIA ALKALOID; RESERPINE; STROPHANTHIN;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BRADYCARDIA; CAREER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SODIUM RESTRICTION; TABLET;

CARDIOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIA; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PORTRAITS; RAUWOLFIA;

EID: 33748033045     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 07302347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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