Pulse-gauging : a clinical study of radial measurement and pulse-pressure / by George Oliver.

  • Oliver, George (George Arthur), 1841-1915.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Pulse-gauging : a clinical study of radial measurement and pulse-pressure / by George Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE, In the following pages I have endeavoured to present an outline of the principal re- sults obtained by the application of the methods of observation of the pulse, which I have followed during the past three or four years. The data thus yielded have afforded me such practical clinical guidance, that I am fain to think there are some who may care to put them on trial, and who may find this chart somewhat useful in their attempts to study the pulse on the lines which I have adopted. In the earlier years of my practice I patiently applied the sphygmograph; but I eventually concluded that the clinical aid which it can provide is but limited, and by no means commensurate with the