Two Oxford Physiologists: Richard Lower 1631 to 1691, John Mayow 1643 to 1679
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He describes how the diaphragm and intercostal muscles must by their contraction make the thorax larger, the former because it descends, the latter because they raise the sloping arches of the ribs which he showed to be pivoted on joints both in front and behind, and he demonstrated by the pneumatic trough that, if this enlargement occurs, then the elastic lungs must them- selves enlarge, sucking in more air. The whole account is almost in detail that given in modern textbooks of physiology, wh...ilst his demonstrations are the familiar ones still used for illustrating the mechanical features of the respiratory mechanism. What, it may be asked, did Mayow fail to realize as regards Respiration apart from the nervous aspects of the problem? The most important omission in his work was his failure to recognize that the whole process involved not only the taking in of that special aerial 32 TWO OXFORD PHYSIOLOGISTS constituent which he had discovered, but also the giving out to the air of another special compound derived from the body tissues.
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