On Blood Pressure.

This is no learned treatise, but an attempt to discuss the simple methods by which comparatively accurate blood pressure readings may be estimated. Such estimations are not only of great importance in life assurance work, but in the general workaday life of practice: and it is surprising how often this simple procedure is either omitted or performed perfunctorily with consequent unprofitable results. For the purpose of this discussion we will divide the subject into the following sub-sections:-