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CHE MIS TR Y OF RESPIRATION. 



Vital capacity is the term given by Hutchinson to the volume 

 of air which can be expelled from the thorax by the most forcible 

 expiration, following the deepest possible inspiration. The different 

 values assigned to this volume of air are shown in the following 

 table : 13 



1 "Connexion of Life with Respiration," London, 1788, p. 25. 



2 ''Researches concerning Nitrous Oxide," London, 1800, p. 399. 

 Phil. Tram., London, 1809, pp. 404, 410, 428. 



Article "Thorax," Todd's "Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology," vol. iv. p. 

 1066. 



Deutsches Arch. f. klin. Med., Leipzig, 1879, Bd. xxiii. S. 481. 

 Zuntz, Hermann's "Handbuch," Bd. iv. Th. 2, S. 103. 

 Ztschr.f. klin. Med., Berlin, 1879, Bd. i. S. 27. 



8 Tagebl. d. 54 Versamml. deutsch. Naturf. u. Aerzte in Salzburg, 1881, S. 117. 



9 Arch.f. d. gcs. Physiol., Bonn, 1882, Bd. xxix. S. 244. 



10 Ztschr.f. klin. Med., Berlin, 1884, Bd. vii. S. 487. 



11 Arch.f. d. ges. Physiol., Bonn, 1888, Bd. xliii. S. 236, 440. 

 Ibid., 1891, Bd. 1. S. 363. 



13 See also Julius Jeffreys. "Statics of the Human Chest," 1843 ; Jackson, Am. Med. 

 Examiner, 1851, p. 51 ; Radclyffe Hall, Trans. Prov. Med. and Surg. Assoc., London, 

 1851. 



