Has this ever happened to you? … You’re lying in bed and trying to fall asleep when you feel a sudden thunk in your chest. Maybe you sense that your heart is skipping a beat and then giving you a little kick afterwards. This could happen on and off for minutes....
The next time you’re in a doctor’s office…and someone wraps a cuff around your arm to check your blood pressure, you’ll have to thank a nice Jewish doctor named Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch. He called his device a sphygmomanometer,...
