Excerpt from Transactions of the Section on Pathology and Physiology of the American Medical Association at the Sixty-Second Annual Session: Held at Los Angeles, Cal., June 27 to 30, 1911 Such a development of clinical physiology might well be the greatest event in the progress of medicine during the second decade of the twentieth century. What the entire volume of clinical physiology should be in the future may most easily be shown by instancing such of its chapters as might be written even now. Such a chapter might be written about the clinical use Of the sphygmomanometer, the significance of its measure ments and the conceptions of circulatory functions which center in it. How valuable are these conceptions and measurements I need not emphasize before this audience! That which should be emphasized is the fact that physiologists began measuring blood-pressure in millimeters of mercury more than half a century ago; yet the clinical modification and utilization of the method is a matter of yesterday - perhaps I should rather say of to-day, or even to-morrow. Thus, by this example, it takes at least fifty years for a physiologic conception or method to find its way from the labora tory to the clinic. Many pathologic and bacteriologic methods complete the arduous journey in as many weeks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.