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The first recorded attempt to measure blood pressure was made in 1733 by the Englishman, Stephen Hales. He inserted a small brass tube into the aorta of a horse. To this brass tube, he inserted a long piece of glass tubing. Hales found that the height of the column of blood that rose in the glass tube exceeded 8 feet. He also noted that when the heartbeat was, the level of the blood in the tube rose and fell several inches. In 1896, Riva-Rocci developed the modern method of blood pressure measurement
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Saddleback College
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Bio 12
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Bio 12
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- Human physiology
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- systolic
- diastolic
- auscultatory method
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arterial and venous blood pressure
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