Samuel von Basch
Samuel von Basch · Science & Medicine
Physician who invented the sphygmomanometer for non-invasive blood pressure measurement.
1837, Prague, Bohemia (Austrian Empire) — 1905, Vienna, Austria
Austria-Hungary
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Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch was born to a Jewish family in Prague and worked as a physician and physiologist in the Austrian Empire, including as personal physician to Emperor Maximilian I in Mexico. He invented the sphygmomanometer in the 1880s, the first practical device for measuring blood pressure non-invasively, a cornerstone of modern clinical medicine.
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Physician who invented the sphygmomanometer for non-invasive blood pressure measurement.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
