Annals of medical history . ital and Sir Patrick DunsHospital with them; (b) through the extra-ordinarily able books and articles from thepens of the Irish masters. As to the result, it manifested itselfprimarily in the method of clinical practice of Graves and Stokes ofhaving the students examine and followthe cases in the Hospital became the Ameri-can method. It is the one obtaining every-where in this country today. Incidentallythe Irish School contributed to the popular-ization of the new methods of physicaldiagnosis, percussion and mediate auscul-tation—methods brought back t
Annals of medical history . ital and Sir Patrick DunsHospital with them; (b) through the extra-ordinarily able books and articles from thepens of the Irish masters. As to the result, it manifested itselfprimarily in the method of clinical practice of Graves and Stokes ofhaving the students examine and followthe cases in the Hospital became the Ameri-can method. It is the one obtaining every-where in this country today. Incidentallythe Irish School contributed to the popular-ization of the new methods of physicaldiagnosis, percussion and mediate auscul-tation—methods brought back to this coun-try in the main from Paris by a group ofbrilliant young men frt)m Boston andPhiladelphia. It is quite probable that theearliest and strongest interest in the use ofthe stethoscope in this country was arousedby the famous essay of Stokes. In the vivid consciousness of our obliga-tions to Edinburgh, to London, to Paris, toVienna and to Berlin, let us not forget themore modest, yet important debt we oweto THE HISTORY OF PULSE TIMING WITH SOME REMARKS ONSIR JOHN FLOYER AND HIS PHYSICIANS PULSE WATCHBy JACOB ROSENBLOOM, AID., PITTSBURGH, PA. IT is surprising to nolo how long itformerly required for exact methodsor instruments to be adopted by themedical profession. At present it seemsthat the reverse is true. Too soon theyare adopted and only too soon we llnd theirlimitations. The history of pulse timing presents manydetails of great interest in this the physician as represented in artoften is in the act of taking the pulse withor without his watch in his hand, somewhatas in the old art he is seen looking at orholding a urinal. In that great city of old, in Alexandria,was made the pocket water clock with whichHerophilus, one of the greatest doctors ofall times, first counted the pulse. Heroph-ilus,^ the pupil of Praxagoras, describeswith excessive detail and refinement thecharacters of the pulse. His water clockwas called a clepsydra. He
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