Medical Portrait Gallery. Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians, Surgeons, Etc., Etc., Who Have Contributed to the Advancement of Medical Science; Volume 2
Medical Portrait Gallery. Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians, Surgeons, Etc., Etc., Who Have Contributed to the Advancement of Medical Science; Volume 2
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ... A. analyzed the air in which the hand or foot had been confined for a certain length of time, and he detected in it a quantity of carbonic acid, serving to confirm Mr. Cruikshank's views upon this subject, for he regarded the matter of perspiration, and that expelled from the lungs in breathing, to be similar in their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ... A. analyzed the air in which the hand or foot had been confined for a certain length of time, and he detected in it a quantity of carbonic acid, serving to confirm Mr. Cruikshank's views upon this subject, for he regarded the matter of perspiration, and that expelled from the lungs in breathing, to be similar in their qualities. The experiments which have been made to illustrate the process of respiration, are, to say the least, very unsatisfactory as to their results. To ascertain the changes which the air undergoes by its progress through the lungs, it is necessary to inquire into the quantity respired. The discrepancy in these statements is truly astonishing. Sir H. Davy stated the quantity to be thirteen cubic inches in each respiration, and twelve and three-quarters at each expiration. Messrs. Allen and Pepys have named it sixteen and a half; Mr. Kite, seventeen; Mr. Goodwyn and Mr. Abernethy, twelve; and Jurin of Geneva sets it down at twenty; Richerand carries it bexond this, and assumes it to be between thirty and forty. At this highest number it is estimated by many eminent physiologists and philosophers, among whom 1 may name Menzies, Jurin, Thompson, Sauvages, Haller, Chaptal, John Bell, Soemmering, Fontana, and Dalton. It is a question, whether the air inspired be really diminished by the process of respiration. Sir H. Davy thinks it is as before stated, and such may be regarded as the generally received opinion; but in what degree, it is not possible to say, as the errors incidental to such minute experiments, applying either to the apparatus or other circumstances, are such as necessarily to render the matter any thing but precise. Mr. Abernethy, and, since his time, Dr. Edwards, have made experiments which go to show that the bulk of the air...
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