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.