The Curious Legend of Dr. von Basch by Daniel S. Frank, MD | Oct 3, 2015 | Cardiology, Medical Articles, The Making of a PhysicianThe 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 give thanks to a nice Jewish doctor named Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch. He called his device a...