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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    alkalies which there enter into combination with phosphoric acid, oxyhemoglobin, or hemo- globin and globulin; and, secondly, with the hemoglobin itself. The red blood-corpuscles do not contain enough alkali phosphate to be of importance in the formation of carbonic acid. In all probability the diphosphates present are converted into monophosphates and alkali car- bonates when partial pressure of carbonic acid is increased, while, when the same is dimin- ished by the preponderance of phosphoric acid, a reformation of diphosphates takes place and carbonic acid is again liberated. It is gener- ally conceded that the blood-coloring matters, especially oxyhemoglobin, which by its pres- ence in vactLo with bicarbonate of soda causes the liberation of carbonic acid, act similarly to acids; and, inasmuch as the globuli have a sim- ilar action, they may also occur in the blood- corpuscles as alkali compounds. The alkalies of the blood-corpuscles die when thus found in combination with phosphoric acid, carbonic acid, and such parts of the corpuscles—e,g., the coloring-matter—as act similarly to acid. In [5]