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Pulmonary Blood Volume in Health and Disease.

Pulmonary Blood Volume in Health and Disease. This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract I remember vaguely that sometime about 1935 there appeared in Tubercle the observations of two experimenters who, having shaved one side of rabbits' chests, painted the shaved areas with strong tincture of iodine. Postmortem examinations, some hours (or perhaps days) later, revealed that the lungs on the desecrated sides were more congested with blood than those opposite. As the iodine could not possibly have penetrated through the chest wall to the lung tissue, the effect seemed likely to be caused by a segmental reflex arc from the irritated cutaneous nerve endings to their deep autonomic counterparts. This phenomenon seemed to link up with the observations of Batty Shaw (circa 1930?) in the Brompton Hospital Reports. It was noted that a significantly high percentage of young tuberculous patients presenting with an initial hemoptysis gave a recent history of sunbathing, thus "confirming" a long-held belief that sunbathing was contraindicated in pulmonary tuberculosis http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Internal Medicine American Medical Association

Pulmonary Blood Volume in Health and Disease.

Archives of Internal Medicine , Volume 124 (2) – Aug 1, 1969

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1969 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
ISSN
0003-9926
eISSN
1538-3679
DOI
10.1001/archinte.1969.00300180131045
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Abstract

This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract I remember vaguely that sometime about 1935 there appeared in Tubercle the observations of two experimenters who, having shaved one side of rabbits' chests, painted the shaved areas with strong tincture of iodine. Postmortem examinations, some hours (or perhaps days) later, revealed that the lungs on the desecrated sides were more congested with blood than those opposite. As the iodine could not possibly have penetrated through the chest wall to the lung tissue, the effect seemed likely to be caused by a segmental reflex arc from the irritated cutaneous nerve endings to their deep autonomic counterparts. This phenomenon seemed to link up with the observations of Batty Shaw (circa 1930?) in the Brompton Hospital Reports. It was noted that a significantly high percentage of young tuberculous patients presenting with an initial hemoptysis gave a recent history of sunbathing, thus "confirming" a long-held belief that sunbathing was contraindicated in pulmonary tuberculosis

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Archives of Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association

Published: Aug 1, 1969

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