Muscular work : a metabolic study with special reference to the efficiency of the human body as a machine / by Francis G. Benedict and Edward P. Cathcart.

  • Francis Gano Benedict
Date:
1913
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Credit: Muscular work : a metabolic study with special reference to the efficiency of the human body as a machine / by Francis G. Benedict and Edward P. Cathcart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ILLUSTRATIONS. Bicycle ergometer and universal respiration apparatus Page Frontispiece. Fig. 1. Calibration curves showing heat per revolution of ergometer II 27 2. Schematic outhne of the respiration apparatus 28 3. Tension equalizer and flexible mouthpiece 29 4. Curves showing oxygen consumption per minute with the subject riding at different speeds and with varying loads 137 5. Curves showing the total heat output per minute and corresponding external muscular work per minute, expressed in calories, for subject riding with constant load — 1.5 amperes — at varying speeds 138 6. Curves showing the pulse-rate when the external muscular work was equiv- alent to 1.05 calories per minute 153 7. Curves showing the pulse-rate when the external muscular work was equiv- alent to 1.5 calories per minute 154 8. Curves showing the pulse-rate when the external muscular work was equiv- alent to 2.0 calories per minute 155 9. Curves showing the pulse-rate when the external muscular work was equiv- alent to 2.25 calories per minute 156 10. Continuous records of the rectal temperature obtained by thermal element during severe muscular work 158
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