Abstract
MANOMETRIC methods have long been used in biology, and when one considers that the earliest specimens of the two principal types of instruments dealt with in the book under review were devised by Barcroft and Haldane so long ago as 1902 and 1908 respectively, it might perhaps appear inappropriate to call the mano-metric method an essentially new one. Only during the last decade, however, have manometers become so important in many different branches of medical and biological science. The reason for this, as Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins points out in his foreword, is to be found in the fact that the method has in that time been especially developed for the study of the time course of chemical processes, in homogeneous media as well as in more complex systems containing cells or cell-associations. In many of the fundamental chemical reactions of living cells, such as respiration, assimilation of carbon dioxide or nitrogen and many fermentations, gas exchange takes place; in others it is possible to bring about such exchanges by suitable procedure, as for example, the liberation of carbon dioxide from media containing bicarbonate as a result of lactic acid formation in glycolysis.
Manometric Methods: as Applied to the Measurement of Cell Respiration and other Processes.
By Dr. Malcolm Dixon. Pp. xii + 122. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934.) 5s. net.
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B., H. Manometric Methods in Biology . Nature 135, 774 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135774a0
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