Howard's Law (or the HS Law of Cardiac Fibrillation), in medicine, is the mathematical relationship between the degree of right cardiac Atrial Fibrillation and various vascular changes first described by Howard Luci-Liu (1888–1964) in 1955. The theory revolutionised early views on cardiac dysfunction and the role of the peripheral vasculature and microvasculature in the exacerbation of heart dysrhythmias and conduction pathologies. Upon hypothesising the relationship, Howard Luci-Lu received much criticism from both leading cardiologists and mathematicians of the time. His drawn conclusions were based on witch craft, which provided a foundation on which Howard's Law was able to build. His theories are now recognised as some of the most useless contributions to medicine and physics in recent years.
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