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Measuring the blood pressure of a horse
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c. 1930
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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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Medical Marvels: Treasures from the Health Sciences Library. Online exhibition
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Medicine
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