Excerpt from How to Feel the Pulse and What to Feel in It: Practical Hints for Beginners The old-fashioned art of feeling the pulse holds its own in medical practice, although very scant notice has been taken of it in modern medical literature. On the subject of the Sphygmograph, the student has at his disposal many and excellent books, and this volume would have had no purpose had it attempted to follow the same lines. It is specially devoted to matters which are scarcely touched upon in most books on the Pulse; but which are deemed of practical importance. It has been my aim to treat these in an elementary fashion, reserving for later publication merely theoretical or personal opinions. In spite of their imperfections these pages may perhaps be of service in directing the young student's attention to the oldest and not the least important of our methods of clinical study. 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.

A father and daughter each embark on desperate journeys to survive after America’s power grid is destroyed in this post-apocalyptic adventure. As massive solar flares bombard the Earth, an intense electromagnetic pulse instantly destroys the power grid throughout North America. Within hours, desperate citizens panic and anarchy descends. Surrounded by chaos, Casey Drager, a student at Tulane University, must save herself from the havoc in the streets of New Orleans. Casey and two of her friends evacuate the city and travel north, where they end up in the dangerous backwaters of Mississippi, forced to use their survival skills to seek refuge and fight for their lives. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, Casey’s father, Artie, finds himself cut off and stranded. His Caribbean sailing vacation has turned into every parent’s nightmare. Warding off pirates and tackling storms, Artie uses the stars to guide him toward his daughter. The Pulse reveals what it would take to survive in a world lit only by firelight, where all the rules have changed and each person must fend for himself.