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IF Mr. Hippisley will refer to Landois' text-book, vol. i. p. 196, he will find it there stated, on the authority of Quincke, that a venous pulse occurs on rare occasions, normally, in the veins on the back of the hand and foot, when the peripheral ends of the arteries become dilated and relaxed. But it is to be remembered that the very same phenomenon may obtain abnormally, owing to some pathological condition of the heart, as stenosis of the mitral orifice, or insufficiency in action of the mitral valve. Mr. Hippisley does not state in his letter whether the heart was in a healthy condition, or whether any lesion of that organ was present in those on whom his experiment was tried.
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WILLIAMS, J. Pulsation in the Veins. Nature 32, 466 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032466c0
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