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On the Theory of the Sphygmograph

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2017

Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach*
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Translated into English by Alexandre Métraux
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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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Science in Context , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 435 - 440
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References

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.