Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1856

KARL VON VIERORDT (1818-1884) Die Lehre vom Arterienpuls in gesunden und kranken Zuständen. F. Vieweg 1855 viii, 271 pp., illus., 6 fold. plates. 21.5 cm.

Although Étienne Jules Marey (see No. 1963) is usually given credit for the invention of the first practical sphygmograph in 1860, Vierordt had made, some six years earlier, an instrument designed to trace the intensity of the human pulse. A dedicated and industrious professor at the University of Tübingen, Vierordt made a number of pioneering studies in quantitative hematology including the first accurate erythrocyte count. The present work on arterial pulse in health and disease was an expansion of a paper written one year earlier and includes Vierordt's description of his pulse measurement apparatus.

See Related Record(s): 1963