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Erscheinungsdatum: 1880
Anbieter: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Deutschland
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Berlin, Verlag von August Hirschwald, 1880, Kl.8°, VI, 258 pp., mit Holzschn., Halbleinenband d.Zt. First Edition of "probably the first book to be published on the blood pressure in man". A German Contemporary of Adolphe-Moïse Bloch (1842-1920)*, Dr Louis Waldenburg (1837-1881), "published a comprehensive treatise on the blood pressure in 1880. This was probably the first book to be published on the blood pressure in man. The instrument, which Waldenburg invented and called 'the Pulsuhr', was described in one publication in 1877 and a later one in 1878 (Waldenburg 1877; 1878). It resembled a cross between a sphygmometer and Pond's sphygmograph. It has a base to rest the arm on and a pad which when pressed against the artery activates a dial on which the pressure can be read. The pressure is transmitted to the dial by a series of gears and it has several springs to maintain the tension. The book contains extensive measurements, which are reported in grams and mm Hg on the scale, with elaborate conversion factors in a variety of conditions. Most of the section on blood pressure is devoted to normal physiologic variations with only a small section on fluctuations in blood pressure in illness." M.H. Naqvi & M.D. Blaufox, Blood Pressure Measurement. An illustrated history (1998), p.35,62 *) Comptes rendues de la Société de Biologie de Paris, 11 July 1896: p.84.