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Reference numberAP/55/15
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the bending of the ribs in forced breathing' by Arthur Ransome
Date12 April 1873
DescriptionIn a paper 'On the mechanical conditions of the respiratory movements' (see AP/54/11), read before the Royal Society in November 1872, Ransome endeavoured to show that there is a distinct difference in the chord lengths of a sternal rib in the two positions of full inspiration and forced expiration, and that a certain degree of bending of the ribs usually takes place in forced breathing. The measurements on which these conclusions were based were made with a 3-plane stethometer, the performance of which was not sufficiently accurate to satisfy the author, who has accordingly repeated them by the aid of a new instrument, the construction and use of which are described at length in the present communication. Ransome considers that the new instrument gives fairly accurate results, which fully corroborate the conclusions previously reported.

Marked on front as 'Archives Dec 1873'. Annotations in pencil throughout.

Subject: Physiology

Received 15 May 1873. Read 11 December 1873. Communicated by [John Scott] Burdon-Sanderson.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 21 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the bending of the ribs in forced breathing'.
Extent14p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1873.0007
Related records in the catalogueAP/54/11
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6672Ransome; Arthur (1834 - 1922)1834 - 1922
NA8280Burdon-Sanderson; Sir; John Scott (1828 - 1905)1828 - 1905
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