RespirationYale University Press, 1922 - 427 pages |
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abnormal acclimatization acid acidosis afterdamp alkaline alkalosis alveolar air alveolar CO2 percentage alveolar CO2 pressure alveolar oxygen pressure alveoli ammonia animals anoxaemia apnoea apparatus arterial blood atmospheric pressure Barcroft barometric pressure black damp blood solution Bohr capillaries carbon monoxide carbonic acid cause Chapter chemical circulation rate CO₂ corpuscles cyanosis decompression determined diffusion pressure diminished diminution dissociation curve Douglas effect evident experiments expiration fact Figure fire damp forced breathing haemoglobin Haldane high altitudes hydrogen hyperpnoea increased breathing inspired air Journ lungs methaemoglobin method minutes molecules muscular exertion nitrogen normal ordinary owing oxide oxygen capacity oxygen percentage oxyhaemoglobin partial pressure Paul Bert percentage saturation Physiol physiological poisoning pres present pressure of CO2 pressure of oxygen produced reaction regulation respiration respiratory center sample shown shows stimulus swim bladder symptoms temperature tion tissues tube varying venous blood ventilation volume want of oxygen Yandell Henderson
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Page ii - STELLAR MOTIONS. With Special Reference to Motions Determined by Means of the Spectrograph. By WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL, Sc.D., LL.D., Director of the Lick Observatory, University of California.
Page ii - SILLIMAN MEMORIAL LECTURES PUBLISHED BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS ELECTRICITY AND MATTER. By JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON, D.SC., LL.D., PH.D., FRS, Fellow of Trinity College and Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge University.
Page 383 - It is the fixity of the milieu interieur which is the condition of free and independent life', he wrote, and 'all the vital mechanisms, however varied they may be, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
Page 125 - As the slow onset of anoxaemia advances, the senses and intellect become dulled without the person being aware of it; and if the anoxaemia is suddenly relieved by means of oxygen or ordinary air, the corresponding sudden increase in powers of vision, hearing, etc., is an intense surprise. The power of memory is affected early, and is finally almost annulled, so that persons who have apparently never lost consciousness can nevertheless remember nothing of what has occurred.
Page 380 - ... the airman in an air-tight dress, somewhat similar to a diving dress, but capable of resisting an internal pressure of say 130 mm. of mercury. This dress would be so arranged that even in a complete vacuum the contained oxygen would still have a pressure of 130 mm. There would then be no physiological limit to the height attainable.
Page ii - PH.B., SC.D. (Second printing.) ORGANISM AND ENVIRONMENT AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE PHYSIOLOGY OF BREATHING. By JOHN SCOTT HALDANE, MD, LL.D., FRS, Fellow of New College, Oxford University.
Page v - Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. It , , was the belief of the testator that any orderly presentation of the facts of nature or history contributed to the end of this foundation more effectively than any »,' attempt to emphasize the elements of doctrine or of creed; and he therefore provided that lectures on dogmatic or polemical theology should be excluded from the scope of this foundation, and that the subjects should be selected rather from the domains of natural science o , ., and history,...
Page v - IN the year 1883 a legacy of eighty thousand dollars was left to the President and Fellows of Yale College in the city of New Haven, to be held in trust, as a gift from her children, in memory of their beloved and honored mother Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman. On this foundation Yale College was requested and directed to establish an annual course of lectures designed to illustrate the presence and providence, the wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the natural and moral world. These were to be...
Page ii - EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL APPLICATIONS OF THERMODYNAMICS TO CHEMISTRY. By DR. WALTER NERNST, Professor and Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry in the University of Berlin.
Page vii - ... were largely concerned with artificial circumstances rather than with natural situations. The emphasis on the coordinated regulation of ventilation under natural conditions would have pleased JS Haldane. You will recall that in the preface to his Silliman lectures, Haldane expressed the firm belief that “the various activities of a living organism cannot be interpreted in isolation from one another since organic regulation dominates them.