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The mercury sphygmomanometer was introduced to clinical medicine by Scipione Riva-Rocci in 1896. A decade later Nikolai Korotkoff discovered that sounds are audible as an occluding cuff is deflated and the stethoscope became as indispensable to the measurement of blood pressure as the mercury manometer. It is likely that this traditional technique, which has contributed so much to our knowledge of hypertension over the past century, will soon disappear from clinical practice. There are three reasons for this: mercury is likely to be banned from clinical use because of the danger of toxicity; accurate, automated devices are available to replace the mercury sphygmomanometer; and with the use of 24 h ambulatory blood pressure measurement in clinical practice, more reliance is being placed on blood pressure behaviour than on casual measurement of blood pre...