The dynamics of living matter dynamicsofliving00loeb Year: 1906 2O DYNAMICS OF LIVING MATTER parent and the heartbeat can easily be watched. When such eggs are put into an Engelmann gas chamber and a current of pure hydrogen is sent through, the heart may cease to beat in fifteen or twenty minutes; the heart stops beating suddenly before the number of heartbeats has diminished noticeably: it ceases beating before all the free oxygen may have had time to diffuse from the egg. In one case the heart beat ninety times per minute before the hydrogen was sent through; four minutes after the curren
The dynamics of living matter dynamicsofliving00loeb Year: 1906 2O DYNAMICS OF LIVING MATTER parent and the heartbeat can easily be watched. When such eggs are put into an Engelmann gas chamber and a current of pure hydrogen is sent through, the heart may cease to beat in fifteen or twenty minutes; the heart stops beating suddenly before the number of heartbeats has diminished noticeably: it ceases beating before all the free oxygen may have had time to diffuse from the egg. In one case the heart beat ninety times per minute before the hydrogen was sent through; four minutes after the current of hydrogen had passed through the gas chamber, the rate of the heartbeat was eighty-seven per minute, three
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