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These experiments show that 7.3 and 3.65 per cent ether solutions cause an increase in respiration followed by a decrease. The results agree with those of Haas on Laminaria, of Gustafson on higher fungi, and of Mrs. Brooks on bacteria.
They do not agree with the theory of Verworn that anesthesia is a kind of asphyxia and that it decreases respiration.
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Copyright, 1918, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
1918
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