The claim that a satisfactory level of blood pressure can be maintained by Phillips’ Phospho-Muriate of Quinine is mentioned only to condemn as the limit of impudent therapeutic claims.
Digested secretin gives a fall in blood pressurethat is at times less, at times equal, and at other times greater (Fig.
In some instances intravenous injections of pineal extract have seemed to cause a distinct fall in blood pressure.
The preparations, though inert, always produced a depression in blood pressure, sometimes even greater than that caused by active secretin.
They say that a man is as old as his arteries, and now it is known that the health of the arteries depends largely on blood pressure.
The skin and abdomen together make up so large a part of the whole body that marked constriction of the blood vessels in these two regions is bound to cause a considerable increase in blood pressure.
Furthermore, blood pressure, as should be clear from what has already been said, varies with every heartbeat.
The more elastic the arteries, the less difference there will be between the maximum and the minimum blood pressure.
Of course, it is necessary to be able to tell when the artery has actually been squeezed shut, so that the determination of blood pressure in human beings is the work of an expert.
This special artery ruptures, because it is almost on a direct line from the heart, and so blood pressure is higher in it than in other brain arteries.
Their degeneration produces a great lowering of blood pressure.
The chapter on "Blood Pressure" has been wholly rewritten, expanded so as to give a comprehensive grasp of the essential features, and several illustrations have been added in order to elucidate the text more fully.
A lowered temperature, blood pressure, and blood vessel tone, exhibited in tests of the response of the skin to stroking, are present in all of these and point the same moral.
As this rise of blood pressure is probably controlled by the posterior pituitary, we have a clue to the reason for the rhythmic variations in the rate of production of its secretion by the ovary.
However, Wood[269] found that medium doses of caffein do not produce any marked rise in blood pressure, and cause a reduction in pulse rate.
A complete section has been added on blood pressure.
In all strenuous training or competitive athletic work, the participators should all be examined more or less frequently and more or less carefully for heart strain and albuminuria and also for a too great increase of blood pressure.
This is suggested by analogy with the regulation of secretion in the lacrimal, salivary, or peptic glands, or the maintenance of blood pressure in the heart and arteries.
Subsequently there is a depression of the circulation, with rapid heart action and lowered blood pressure.
Cigaret smoking maintained a blood pressure which, under the circumstances of the experiment, would otherwise have dropped.
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