Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension, with Chapters on Blood Pressure / 3rd Edition.

Page 75, Figure shown is not the Brown sphygmomanometer described in the text, but the Baumanometer manufactured by W. A. Baum Co., Inc., New York. It is claimed that the Baumanometer is made with particular care and hence the readings are said to be more accurate than other mercury instruments. It is apparently a good instrument. The author has had no personal experience with it.
FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL; CHIEF PHYSICIAN TO MILWAUKEE COUNTY HOSPITAL; ASSOCIATE MEMBER ASSOCIATION AMERICAN PHYSICIANS; MEMBER AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PATHOLOGISTS AND BACTERIOLOGISTS; AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, ETC., FELLOW AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS THIRD EDITION ST. LOUIS C. V. MOSBY COMPANY 1920
Copyright, 1912, 1920, by C. V. Mosby Company Press of C. V. Mosby Company St. Louis
TO MY MOTHER THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

Several years have elapsed since the appearance of the second edition of this book. During this time there has been considerable experimentation and much writing on arteriosclerosis. The total of all work has not been to add very much to our knowledge of the etiology of arterial degeneration. Points of view and opinions change from time to time. It is so with arteriosclerosis. In this edition arteriosclerosis is not regarded as a disease with a definite etiologic factor. Rather it is looked upon as a degenerative process affecting the arteries following a variety of causes more or less ill defined. It is not considered a true disease. Possibly syphilitic arteritis may be viewed as an entity, the cause is known and the lesions are characteristic.
Much new material and many new figures have been added to this edition. Some rearranging has been done. The chapter on Blood Pressure has been much expanded and some original observations have been included. The literature has been selected rather than indiscriminately quoted. Much that is written on the subject is of little value.