Jewish Invention Myths: The Term ‘Cardiac Countershock’
Something which came up in the research for my articles debunking the jewish invention myths attributing the discovery of the Pacemaker (1) and the Defibrillator (2) to the jewish cardiologist Paul Zoll in 1956.
I found the following passing note by Ivan Cakulev and Albert Waldo in their 2015 discussion of Zoll’s contributions to medicine in the journal ‘Circulation’:
‘Another area where credit for being first is given to Zoll inappropriately is that Cohen credits Zoll with coining the term countershock, although the term was first used by William Kouwenhoven in 1933.’ (3)
What Cakuley and Waldo are referencing is credit for coining the term ‘Cardiac Countershock’ to medically describe defibrillation being wrongly awarded to Paul Zoll in 1956 rather than to the inventor of the defibrillator William Kouwenhoven of John Hopkins University in 1933 who also first coined the term ‘Cardiac Countershock’ in the same year.
This is just another example of how jewish invention myths start!
References
(1) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jewish-invention-myths-the-pacemaker
(2) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jewish-invention-myths-the-defibrillator
(3) https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.013843