Carbonic acid in medicine / by Achilles Rose, M.D. ; with the portraits of van Helmont, Priestley and Lavoisier.

  • Achilles Rose
Date:
1905
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Credit: Carbonic acid in medicine / by Achilles Rose, M.D. ; with the portraits of van Helmont, Priestley and Lavoisier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CARBONIC ACID CHAPTER I THE PHYSIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF RESPIRATION Carbonic acid is a constant constituent of the animal organism, the minor portion being supplied by the atmosphere. Absorption of carbonic acid from the atmosphere is partly due to the respiratory function of the skin. Aber- nethy (1764-1831) already had demonstrated that the skin is a vast respiratory surface; it is true it can not be compared with the lungs, but it is nevertheless very efficient. Abernethy's experiments to find the degree of absorption of different gases by the Skin show that, after oxy- gen, carbonic acid is the most absorbable. Carbonic acid is taken up also through nu- trition, but the larger part is derived from the tissues and the blood, and forms one of the I [I]