Seymour London

Seymour B. London (born July 1, 1915 in Detroit , † July 14, 2010 in Miami Beach ) was an American doctor and inventor of the first automatic blood pressure monitor .

Life

Born in Detroit, he moved with his family to Miami Beach, Florida as a teenager, where he graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School in 1932 . He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Florida , his master's degree from the University of Michigan, and his doctorate from Harvard Medical School in 1940. He did an internship in cardiopulmonary medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center . Here he met his future wife Rose Perrone, a medical student. After completing his medical training, he returned to Miami Beach and ran a medical practice for 50 years with his wife, who died in 2008. They helped found the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Miami Heart Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center .

Since the manual measurement of his patients' blood pressure cost him a lot of time, London developed a machine for automatic blood pressure measurement. He constructed the original prototype of his patented device from an old blood pressure cuff, a mercury column , a pump from an aquarium and a microphone. To prove the accuracy of their device, London and his wife conducted a double-blind study of 400 doctors at the American Medical Association's annual meeting in 1965. The results of the study showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the automatically measured and the manually measured results. The results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in November 1966 . In addition to the patent in the United States, the device was also patented in France, Germany and Italy.

After his death, his daughter announced that he would donate the original model of the device to the University of Miami Medical School. London died of heart disease at his Miami Beach home at the age of 95.

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• Morel, Laura C. "Seymour B. London: Invented blood pressure machine" , The Miami Herald , July 15, 2010. Accessed July 19 of 2010.
• London, Rose E .; and London, Seymour B. "Blood Pressure Survey of Physicians" , Journal of the American Medical Association , November 18, 1966. Retrieved on July 15 of 2010.