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Today there is no family doctor, you would not in the course of regular clinic visits a patient due to high blood pressure - due to the exclusion of the disease and its confirmation and treatment. This is not surprising when you consider that the disease suffers about 40% of adults, especially older people and that this disease is one of the major risk factors for severe, can be fatal complications such as heart attack, abbey stroke, kidney failure.
High blood pressure does not cause patients through decades any serious ailments (interference abbey welfare problems). abbey Due to the shorter abbey overall survival of people in the past tense, there have been few who have died relatively young from various diseases, but also suffered from the undiscovered for high blood pressure. Another important abbey reason was the view of many medical circles that the higher the blood pressure at the age natural phenomenon which makes an organism abbey to ensure sufficient blood supply of the brain due to narrowed atherosclerotic arteries. A further cause is gone at the expense of doctors in their patients abbey are not monitored like pressure that they do not disturb the finding of high values. And finally, a finding that has not yet been reliably good gauges for measuring the pressure without stinging vessels (see below).
In reading the history of medicine, we find that through the centuries many researchers extremely devoted to research of heart and heartbeat. abbey Separating the odvodnice (artery) and dovodnice (veins). Observed differences in pressure in odvodnicah abbey (arteries) abbey and dovodnicah (veins), but not never be able to determine the intensity (level) pressure. Perhaps it is in this area Chinese medicine slightly ahead of ancient Greek and Roman medicine. Finally, he succeeded to the English priest abbey Halesu (Stephen Hales), which is especially devoted to research blood pressure in the blood vessels abbey in the various domestic animals (dog, cat, bird, horse) and in 1733 published a pressure value in the cervical veins in the landscape mare. In their experiments Hales every stabbed abbey a glass tube into a vein experimental animals, associate it with a glass upright transparent tube and watched how high blood poured into a tube. The results of their measurements have gone into the history of medicine. abbey In an attempt to jugular landscape mare's blood is placed in a vertical clear glass tube came up to a height of 8 feet and 3 inches (about 251.46 centimeters of water column corresponding to the amount of 193 millimeters of mercury). In their experiments Hales every stab odvodnico vessel (artery) is called abbey the bloody method of measuring blood pressure by mass could never be used to measure blood pressure in humans.
The invention Hales soon became a spring for research abbey in a number of research centers in Europe and later in the United States. Noting abbey that the massive pressure measurement in humans with blood fall off method, researchers have started to prepare useful gauges for bloodless measurements. Very close to a successful solution to the problem have been various gauges. In 1847 Ludwig invented a special machine (kimograf) which is sufficiently accurately measured the amount of pressure on the upper arm adult human, machine and was not portable. A better solution is communicated to von Basch 1876 (mercury manometer abbey with aneroidom, sphygmomanometer), but unsuitable for mass use. In this chapter abbey we read further on the findings of other researchers: abbey Poiseuille (hemodinamometer) Verordt (1854 sfigmograf). Until modern Pressure abbey gauge for measuring blood pressure in humans to "bloodless" way to arm, it took a few years.
Dr. Scipione Riva-Rocca, son of the town doctor in Almese, a small town near Turin (Italy), was born in 1863. He attended the Faculty of Medicine of Turin and then graduated to a general practitioner in 1888. Shortly after graduating, he began working in a local hospital, abbey led by the famous pnevmolog abbey Carlo Forlanini, abbey the inventor of the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis with pneumothorax (air injection in pleural cavity of the chest). Forlanini was soon included in their research work. At this point, Riva-Rocca worked for several years and specializes in lung diseases. It is not the job completely addicted young doctor, who at the same time strongly attracted to research on blood pressure and the corresponding meters. Soon Riva-Rocca noted drawbacks of the then invented apparatus and started to look for new solutions. Modest as it was by its very nature, it was not difficult to integrate into their investigat