Go to JCI Insight
  • About
  • Editors
  • Consulting Editors
  • For authors
  • Publication ethics
  • Publication alerts by email
  • Advertising
  • Job board
  • Contact
  • Clinical Research and Public Health
  • Current issue
  • Past issues
  • By specialty
    • COVID-19
    • Cardiology
    • Gastroenterology
    • Immunology
    • Metabolism
    • Nephrology
    • Neuroscience
    • Oncology
    • Pulmonology
    • Vascular biology
    • All ...
  • Videos
    • Conversations with Giants in Medicine
    • Video Abstracts
  • Reviews
    • View all reviews ...
    • Complement Biology and Therapeutics (May 2025)
    • Evolving insights into MASLD and MASH pathogenesis and treatment (Apr 2025)
    • Microbiome in Health and Disease (Feb 2025)
    • Substance Use Disorders (Oct 2024)
    • Clonal Hematopoiesis (Oct 2024)
    • Sex Differences in Medicine (Sep 2024)
    • Vascular Malformations (Apr 2024)
    • View all review series ...
  • Viewpoint
  • Collections
    • In-Press Preview
    • Clinical Research and Public Health
    • Research Letters
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Editorials
    • Commentaries
    • Editor's notes
    • Reviews
    • Viewpoints
    • 100th anniversary
    • Top read articles

  • Current issue
  • Past issues
  • Specialties
  • Reviews
  • Review series
  • Conversations with Giants in Medicine
  • Video Abstracts
  • In-Press Preview
  • Clinical Research and Public Health
  • Research Letters
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Editorials
  • Commentaries
  • Editor's notes
  • Reviews
  • Viewpoints
  • 100th anniversary
  • Top read articles
  • About
  • Editors
  • Consulting Editors
  • For authors
  • Publication ethics
  • Publication alerts by email
  • Advertising
  • Job board
  • Contact
Top
  • View PDF
  • Download citation information
  • Send a comment
  • Terms of use
  • Standard abbreviations
  • Need help? Email the journal
  • Top
  • Version history
  • Article usage
  • Citations to this article

Advertisement

Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI102329

THE ACUTE CIRCULATORY EFFECTS OF THE HEAD-DOWN POSITION (NEGATIVE G) IN NORMAL MAN, WITH A NOTE ON SOME MEASURES DESIGNED TO RELIEVE CRANIAL CONGESTION IN THIS POSITION

Robert W. Wilkins, Stanley E. Bradley, and Carl K. Friedland

Robert Dawson Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

2

Present address: Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, N. Y.

3

Present address: University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

1

This work was carried out under a contract between the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals and the Office of Scientific Research and Development.

Find articles by Wilkins, R. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Robert Dawson Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

2

Present address: Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, N. Y.

3

Present address: University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

1

This work was carried out under a contract between the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals and the Office of Scientific Research and Development.

Find articles by Bradley, S. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Robert Dawson Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

2

Present address: Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, N. Y.

3

Present address: University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

1

This work was carried out under a contract between the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals and the Office of Scientific Research and Development.

Find articles by Friedland, C. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Published July 1, 1950 - More info

Published in Volume 29, Issue 7 on July 1, 1950
J Clin Invest. 1950;29(7):940–949. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI102329.
© 1950 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
Published July 1, 1950 - Version history
View PDF
Browse pages

Click on an image below to see the page. View PDF of the complete article

icon of scanned page 940
page 940
icon of scanned page 941
page 941
icon of scanned page 942
page 942
icon of scanned page 943
page 943
icon of scanned page 944
page 944
icon of scanned page 945
page 945
icon of scanned page 946
page 946
icon of scanned page 947
page 947
icon of scanned page 948
page 948
icon of scanned page 949
page 949
Version history
  • Version 1 (July 1, 1950): No description

Article tools

  • View PDF
  • Download citation information
  • Send a comment
  • Terms of use
  • Standard abbreviations
  • Need help? Email the journal

Metrics

  • Article usage
  • Citations to this article

Go to

  • Top
  • Version history
Advertisement
Advertisement

Copyright © 2025 American Society for Clinical Investigation
ISSN: 0021-9738 (print), 1558-8238 (online)

Sign up for email alerts