1880 WALDENBURG, Louis (1837 – 1881)
Die Messung des Pulses und des Blutdrucks am Menschen.
Probably the first book published on the messurement blood pressure in mankind. Mostly concerned with normal physiologic conditions, with a small section on fluctuations in illness. Digital facsimile from Google Books…
GMN 11721 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13922
1889 POTAIN, Pierre Charles Édouard (1825 – 1901)
Du sphygmomanomètre et de la mésure de la pression artérielle chez l’homme à l’état normale et pathologique.
Potain devised a simple portable air sphygmomanometer for blood-pressure estimation.
GMN 2798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3419
1895 MOSSO, Angelo (1846 – 1910)
Sphygmomanomètre pour mésurer la pression du sang chez l’homme.
A sphygmomanometer for registering the blood-pressure in the finger was invented by Mosso.
GMN 2801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3425
1896 RIVA-ROCCI, Scipione (1863 – 1937)
Un nuovo sfigmomanometro.
Riva-Rocci’s sphygmomanometer marked the end of the search for a simple clinical method of estimating the blood-pressure. Abridged English translation in Ruskin (No. 3160.1).
GMN 2804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3433
1897 HILL, Sir Leonard Erskine (1866 – 1952); BARNARD, Harold Leslie (1868 – 1908)
A simple and accurate form of sphygmomanometer or arterial pressure gauge contrived for clinical use.
Hill and Barnard made an important modification to the Riva-Rocci sphygmomanometer when they substituted a pressure gauge in place of the mercury manometer used for pressure readings.
GMN 2807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3446
1902 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
Some experimental and clinical observations concerning states of increased intracranial tension.
According to Theodore Janeway (No. 11572), Cushing was the first to recommend routine measurement of blood pressure during surgery using the Riva Rocci sphygmomanometer.(See No. 2804). Cushing visited Riva Rocci at Pa…
GMN 11573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13772
1904 JANEWAY, Theodore Caldwell (1872 – 1917)
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 disease.
The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13771
1905 KOROTKOV, Nikolai Sergeievich (1874 – 1920)
On methods of studying blood pressure.
Korotkov introduced the modern method of applying the stethoscope to the brachial artery during blood-pressure examination with Riva-Rocci’s sphygmomanometer, for the purpose of investigating the sounds made by the bl…
GMN 2818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3498
2018 MOSS, Sandra W.
Writing the pulse: The origins and career of the sphygmograph and its American masters.
"The definitive history of a technology that was used in research and practice in Europe and America beginning with the invention of the sphygmograph by German physiologist Karl Vierordt in 1854" (W. Bruce Fye).
GMN 12362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14586
