The Curious Legend of Dr. von Basch by Daniel S. Frank, MD | Sep 1, 2024 | Cardiology, Medical Articles, Scientific FundamentalsThe 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,...