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LONDON. Royal Society, March 10.—Sir Archiba'd Geikie, K.C.B., president, in the chair.—C. Gordon Douglas and Dr. J. S. Haldane: The causes of the absorption of oxygen by the lungs (preli Fminary). A short preliminary account is given of experiments affording clear evidence of a secretory activity of the lungs in the absorption of oxygen.—V. H. Veley and A. D. Waller: The action of nicotine and other pyridine bases upon muscle, and on the antagonism of nicotine by curarine. Nicotine (mol. wt. = 162) as such, or in the form of salt as nicotine tartrate, produces a very characteristic effect upon the contraction of isolated muscle. Its toxic power upon muscle, as compared with that of other substances that the authors have dealt with, is of the following order, i.e. approximately one-third that of quinine and considerably greater than that of curarine:—
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Societies and Academies . Nature 83, 87–90 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083087a0
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