MACHINE PULSE-FEELER
HOW INSTRUMENTS HELP THE MODERN DOCTOR. Loudon, August 8. Ingenious instruments used in me ioal work are on view at tr.e exhibition of medical and surgical appliances, drug preparations, etc., iu the Imperial Institute. By means of t e microphonoscop9 o'ie mav rear the faintest beating of his own pulse T is is for use by doctors in connection witn the sphygmomanometer, an instrument for measuring blood pressure. Formerly, to ascertain the strength of the pulse a doct .r place« two lingers on an artery au i crease 1 t-e pressure of oue uutil tne ot er finger no longer felt the pulse beat. Now the spiivmomanometer is strappe ! round the" wrist, air being pamued into it until t:e pulse is obliterated while wit i the microphonoscope the doctor listers until the pulse sonn s uisappear, showing t at the How stopped.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2028, 18 September 1913, Page 6
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144MACHINE PULSE-FEELER Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2028, 18 September 1913, Page 6
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