When I got to the chapter "Between a Rock and a Hard Life" I was excited to read about something that I had heard of before. Like stated in this chapter, up until the fifth century B.C. doctors were practicing bloodletting which is where doctors would deliberately cut the veins of patients, thinking that get ride of any harmful things in the bloodstream. the problem that doctors were facing during Daniel Bernoulli's time is how much blood should be drained? they needed a way to measure a patients blood pressure so they could determine how much they should bleed their patients. Since I'm interested in persuing a career in medicine it was so cool to find out that Bernoulli studied the circulation of the body in order to come up with his equation. Studying medicine lead to his discovery of how to measure the speed and pressure of moving water.
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