Heart disease, blood-pressure, and the Nauheim-Schott treatment / by Louis Faugeres Bishop.

  • Bishop, Louis Faugères, 1864-1941.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Heart disease, blood-pressure, and the Nauheim-Schott treatment / by Louis Faugeres Bishop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    practice, on the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number, the attentive study of chronic disease is at least equally necessary. Alteration of pressure of the blood in the vessels constitutes the most striking disorder of the general circulation, and upon a study of its causes, effects, and control, will be built this entire consideration of the subject. In- deed, the whole mechanism of the circulation has to do with the maintenance of high-press- ure or low-pressure in one part or another of the vascular system as may be demanded. It is easy to see that the maintenance of the circulation is not a question of the degree of tension in any part of the circulatory system, but of a proper relation in tension between pressure in the arteries, where the blood is stored, and the points at which it is needed. It is usual, however, to study the question from the standpoint of the arteries. In most cases it is only late in circulatory disease that venous pressure becomes of importance. The freedom of passage between the arteries and veins through the arterioles and capillaries is of ex- treme importance.