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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    neously. Bohr believes that the granules of coloring-matter absorb the oxygen and that the carbonic acid is bound by the albumin compo- nent. The main amount of carbonic acid in the blood is found in the plasma or serum. It is more abundant in the serum than in the other constituents. We find the carbonic acid in the serum and blood-plasma distributed as follows: I. Apart is simply absorbed. 2. Of the remainder the larger part is in loose, the smaller part in firmer, chemical union. The quantity which is simply absorbed can not be exactly determined. Setschenow esti- mates that in the serum of the dog it forms about one-tenth of the entire carbonic acid con- tained in the blood. The quantity of carbonic acid in firm chemical combination must be de- termined by the amount of alkali carbonates ; it is, however, not exactly known, inasmuch as the alkalies of the blood are not only associated with carbonic acid, but also with other compo- nents, especially with the albumins. Part of the loosely bound carbonic acid of the serum which can be separated by the ex- [7]