Measuring the blood pressure of a horse

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Date

c. 1930

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Internet

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Abstract

This is an imaginative reconstruction of Stephen Hales’s method of measuring the blood pressure of a horse. He used a glass tube inserted into the neck blood vessels, and noted the level to which the blood rose.

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Hales800x600.jpg

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