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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    (or indeed of any other) instrumental mode of observation of the pulse are :— (a). The inapplicability of it to those cases in which structural irregularities of the radial artery and of the wrist are present. Observation is thereby excluded in a certain proportion of cases. (6). Some degree of deftness in the ob- server is necessary for trustworthy read- ing of the instruments. 2. In health the calibre of the systemic arteries never remains persistently uni- form, but is continually varying within pretty wide limits in reponse to change of physiological condition; and the varia- tions follow a definite order (pp. 12-30). 3. In disease, pronounced departures from the physiological'order of variation are met with—as revealed by change of posture ; such as the following :— (a) . The measurement uniform in the postures. (b) . The maximum measurement in re- cumbency.