Question

First sphygmomanometer was invented by

• A. Basch.
• B. Laennec
• C. Halls
• D. Chardack.

Answer 1

The correct option is A Basch.

The first clinically applicable sphygmomanometer was invented in 1881 by Austrian physician Karl Samuel Ritter von Basch.

Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch physician and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it.