Human Physiology, Volume 2Lea and Blanchard, 1850 - Human physiology |
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... blood . With the ancients this process was but little understood . It was generally believed to be the means of cooling the body ; and , in modern times , Helvetius revived the notion , attributing to it the office of refrigerating the ...
... blood . With the ancients this process was but little understood . It was generally believed to be the means of cooling the body ; and , in modern times , Helvetius revived the notion , attributing to it the office of refrigerating the ...
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... blood , conveyed to the lungs by the pulmonary artery , into arterial blood . This is effected by the contact of the inspired air with the venous blood ; in which they both lose certain elements , and gain others . Most physiologists ...
... blood , conveyed to the lungs by the pulmonary artery , into arterial blood . This is effected by the contact of the inspired air with the venous blood ; in which they both lose certain elements , and gain others . Most physiologists ...
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... blood was to be ascribed to the air . He found , that a clot of venous blood , confined in a small quantity of air , assumed a scarlet colour , and that the air experienced the same change as from respiration . He afterwards examined ...
... blood was to be ascribed to the air . He found , that a clot of venous blood , confined in a small quantity of air , assumed a scarlet colour , and that the air experienced the same change as from respiration . He afterwards examined ...
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... blood in the vessels of the lungs . To account for these changes on chemical principles has been a great object with chemical physiologists at all times . At an early period , the conversion of venous into arterial blood was supposed to ...
... blood in the vessels of the lungs . To account for these changes on chemical principles has been a great object with chemical physiologists at all times . At an early period , the conversion of venous into arterial blood was supposed to ...
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... blood , giving rise to the formation of car- bonic acid and water ; and , as in these combinations , the oxygen passes from the state of a rare to that of a denser gas , or of a liquid , there is a considerable disengagement of caloric ...
... blood , giving rise to the formation of car- bonic acid and water ; and , as in these combinations , the oxygen passes from the state of a rare to that of a denser gas , or of a liquid , there is a considerable disengagement of caloric ...
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