Measuring blood pressure

POISEUILLE, Jean Léonard Marie.

Recherches sur la force du coeur aortique; thèse présentée et soutenue à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris le 28 août 1828.

Paris: Didot Jeune, 1828.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003083

4to (247 x 198 mm). vi [1], 8-45 [1] pp., including one engraved plate representing the "hemodynamometer". Bound in contemporary half green sheep over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (upper joint repaired, extremities rubbed and chipped). Light browning, small faint dampstain to upper corner, light scattered foxing. Bound with 11 other French medical theses, 1824-1837. Text generally with uneven browning and some scattered foxing and spotting. ----

Garrison-Morton 767; Gedeon pp. 188-89; PMM 189 (rem); not in Norman, Waller or Wellcome. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this important medical thesis by the French physician Poiseuille (1797-1869). "Poiseuille was the first after Stephen Hales to make any important addition to the knowledge of the physiology of circulation. In his graduation thesis, above, he described a 'hemodynamometer' invented by himself and which he used to repeat some of Hales's blood-pressure experiments. With his hemomanometer, a mercury manometer, which was a great improvement on the long tube used by Hales, Poiseuille showed that the blood-pressure rises and falls on expiration and inspiration, and measured the degree of arterial dilatation produced by each heart beat." (Garrison-Morton).
Hales's work marked the greatest advance in the physiology of the circulation between Harvey and the introduction of the mercury manometer and other instruments for the measurement of blood pressure by J.L.M. Poiseuille in 1828' (PMM).
Other theses included in this Sammelband are: I. JARDON, J.-L.-H. Considérations anatomiques, physiologiques, et pathologiques sur l'ongle et son organe générateur, Paris: Didot Jeune, 1836, 80 pp. II. GORRÉ, F. Propositions de chirurgie et de médicine, Paris: Didot Jeune, 1835, 21 [1] pp. III. BEUGNOT, J.-F. Propositions sur le diagnostic des principales maladies du coeur, Paris: Fonderie de Rignoux, 1837, 20 pp. IV. BERTRAND, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste. Dissertation sur l'aménorrhée définitive ou age critique des femmes, Paris: Didot Jeune, 1836, 50 pp. (presentation copy, inscribed by the author). V. THIRIAL, Hyacinthe-Éliézer. Dissertation sur la chlorose ou les pâles couleurs des jeunes filles, Paris: Didot Jeune, 1833, 33 [1] pp. VI. MATHIEU, E. Considérations philosophiques sur le squelette de l'homme. Paris: Didot Jeune, 1834, 52 pp. VII. LA PORTE, Auguste de la. Des circonstances pathologiques dans lesquelles se développent les hydropisies, Paris: Didot Jeune, 1836, 34 pp. VIII. VARIOT, J.-F. Essai sur le rhumatisme articulaire aigu, Paris: Didot Jeune, 1836, 23 [1] pp. IX. WILLE, J. Dissertation sur le rhumatisme aigu, Paris: Didot Jeune, 1836, 24 pp. X. DUNAND, T.-J.-C. Dissertation sur les calculs vésicaux et leur traitement par la taille. Paris: Fonderie de Rignoux, 1837, 20 pp. XII. GIRARD, Jean. Traité des hernies inguinales dans le cheval et autres monodactyles. Paris: Madame Huzard, 1827, [4], viii, 150, [2] pp., including half-title, lacking all the 7 plates. - Visit our website for additional images and information.

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