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On the Theory of the Sphygmograph
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2017
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Many debates have already taken place on the reliability of the results obtained by means of sphygmographs. The following remarks may contribute to clarify some still unsettled points.
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1 Müller's Archiv 1847, p. 242.
2 Die Lehre vom Arterienpuls, p. 11.
3 Medizinische Physik, p. 470.
4 What this says of course is only that the kymographion gives the period of the blood pressure, and not the shape of this period at the same time.
5 Die Lehre vom Arterienpuls, p. 15.
6 Marey in Brown-Sequard's Journal de physiologie 1959, vol. 2, p. 259, p. 420 – 1860 Avril n° X; in addition Chaveau [sic! instead of Cheveau] & Marey, Comptes rendus Jan. 6, 1862, p. 32 – Oct. 7, 1861, p. 622.
7 Mach on sphygmographs in Sitzungsbericht der kaiserl. Akademie 1862 April and Mach Compendium der Physik für Mediziner p. 149. There a general method is presented by means of which the true curve of the blood pressure is derived from the curve of the sphygmograph by means of a correction.
8 All these curves ought to be read from left to right.
9 Henle & Meissner, Jahresbericht über Anatomie und Physiologie 1859, p. 537.
10 The jagged lines in a, b, c, and d of figure 3 are thus due to the tube's oscillations; they are not inaccuracies, but rather signs of the instrument's exactitude.
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