The clinical study of blood-pressure : a guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical, and obstetrical practice; with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and in disease / by Theodore C. Janeway ... seventy-five illustrations in the text, many in colors.

  • Janeway, Theodore C. (Theodore Caldwell), 1872-1917.
Date:
1904
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Credit: The clinical study of blood-pressure : a guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical, and obstetrical practice; with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and in disease / by Theodore C. Janeway ... seventy-five illustrations in the text, many in colors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I.—PHYSIOLOGICAL CHAPTER PAGE I.—The direct measurement of blood-pressure 1 1. Introduction—The mercurial manometer 3 2. The normal manometric trace 4 3. The errors of the mercurial manometer—Compensated manometer 5 4. Elastic manometers—Maximum and minimum manometers. ood-pressure 7 9 11 28 30 32 37 37 38 39 II.—Blood-pressure in the normal animal . 1. General features of the arterial circulation 2. The factors which determine blood-pressure . 3. The mean aortic blood-pressure in different anima' 4. The blood-pressure in different arteries . 5. The periodic variations of aortic blood-pressure 6. Spontaneous non-rhythmical variations of aortic b 7. The influence of asphyxia on blood-pressure . 8. The influence of atmospheric pressure on blood-pressure 9. The influence of muscular work on blood-pressure PART II.—TECHNICAL III.—The indirect measurement of blood-pressure .... 41 1. Introduction 43 2. The development of sphygmomanometers applying pressure to the artery through a fluid medium 46 3. The method of circular compression by air 54 4. Experimental verification of the method of circular compression. 55 5. Validity of the several eriteria 62 IV.—The modern sphygmomanometers 75 1. Introduction 77 2. Instruments measuring systolic pressure only .... 77 3. Instruments measuring diastolic pressure 84 4. Instruments measuring systolic pressure and affording an ap- proximate estimate of diastolic pressure 87 5. Instruments measuring accurately both systolic pressure and diastolic pressure by graphic record 93 6. Comparison of results obtained with the various sphygmoma- nometers 100 7. Blood-pressure records 101 8. Practical suggestions 102