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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1875 Excerpt: ... FACTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO SPEAKERS. RESPIRATIoN. "there is a certain quantity of air which is always in the chest, which we cannot expel by any effort, and which remains even after death. It is called residual air, and averages some 120 cubic inches. Next there is what is called supplementary air, --some 130 cubic inches. This by an effort, after an ordinary expiration, we can expel; but we do not expel it in ordinary expiration. These two are called the resident air. Then there are 26 inches of air of ordinary inspiration and expiration. In addition to all these, there is a quantity which can be added by violent inspiration. This is termed the complementary air, and may be about 100 cubic inches, --total cubic inches, 376. It is the resident air (of two kinds) that is alone concerned in the purification of the blood, --i.e., in the supply of oxygen, and the reception from the blood of carbonic acid and vapour. The air of ordinary respiration--the breath--does not at once reach the aircells, or even the smaller air-tubes. Its presence would be injurious to health, and even to life. If it ever chances to get down too far, it makes us cough. There is a progressive intermixture of the fresh air and the 'resident' air from without inwards; so that the whole process is gradual. The action on the blood is thus continuous. We are protected against the sudden invasion of cold, hot, or impure air. The air-cells also, instead of being alternately empty and full, are kept always filled, and in this way keep up an equable pressure on the vessels. We do not breathe to the bottom of our lungs at every breath, but, retaining always some 250 inches of 'resident' air, we gradually renew and strengthen it by breathing, --i.e., by inspiring some 25 or 26 inches of fresh cold a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151705587
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151705586
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 77 gr

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