The Effect of Baths, Massage, and Exercise on the Blood-Pressure.

Abstract

Mode of observation.-The recent appearance of new instruments for the determination of blood-pressure in the human subject has enabled us to make the following series of observations on the effects of baths, massage, and exercise on the arterial and venous blood-pressure. The heamadynamometer of Oliver and the pulse-pressure manometer of Hill were carefully compared and found to read alike, but as the former instrument proved to be rather easier of manipulation and possesses a much wider scale it was used throughout.