The sphygmometer, an instrument which exhibits to the eye the entire action of the arteries : the usefulness of this instrument in the study of all diseases, researches on the diseases of the heart, and on the means of discriminating them : a memoir, presented to the Institute of France / by Julius Hérisson ; translated from the French by Joseph G. Nancrede.

  • Hérisson, Jules.
Date:
1835
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