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- ↑ Lewis, O. (December 1994). "Stephen Hales and the measurement of blood pressure". Journal of Human Hypertension. 8 (12): 865–71. PMID 7884783.
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 303–304. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.