Abstract
To the Editor: —Some of the observations which are published under the title Some Original Observations, by Dr. Virgil C. Kinney (The Journal, June 16, p. 1767), while interesting, are certainly not new. What Dr. Kinney calls a complete reversal of the normal pressure reaction was reported in 1905 by me in the Medical News , September 16, under the title A Test of Condition; further, under the title Blood Ptosis—A Test of Vasomotor Efficiency in the New York Medical Journal , Nov. 8, 1913; and again in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences ( 160 : 721 [Nov.] 1920), under the title The Gravity Resisting Ability of the Circulation: Its Measurement and Significance (Blood Ptosis). Sewall, in an article on The Clinical Significance of the Postural Changes in Pressure ( Am. J. M. Sc . 158 : 573 [Dec.] 1919) follows my work and also uses the term blood ptosis. E.
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