PHYSIOLOGICAL

Physiological Notes

Buckmaster has recently investigated the relations of carbon dioxide and haemoglobin. Arguing that venous blood has been shown by Gardner and himself to be capable of taking up and holding much larger quantities of carbon dioxide (nearly double the quantity) than the amount present in normal arterial blood; he concludes that there must be " some vehicle or vehicles for the assumption; of carbon...

Physiological Pharmacology

In the foreword to this book, the first of a proposed ten-volume series, the editors state that "Physiological Pharmacology is designed to be an authoritative account of the effects of drugs on physiological systems;" that a need exists for such a work cannot be denied. Volume 1 forms the first of a three-part account of the nervous system and embodies the contributions of thirteen authors. It ...

Physiological monitoring

The development of modern medicine has been characterised by the increasing application of scientific methods in the clinical setting. Following the defeat of most infectious disease by antibiotics, and the improvement in public health associated with improved housing, nutrition and education, the major challenges of modern medicine are now those associated with iatrogenic illness, chronic dege...

Physiological Reviews

Physiological Tremor

he contraction of a voluntary muscle is accompanied by tremors of the muscle in the form of minute oscillations. In an electrical recording of the muscle's activity the tremor can be seen as a trace of very fine rhythmic movements superimposed on the record of the contraction itself. The amplitude of the oscillations is about a hundredth or a fiftieth as large as that of the total movement prod...