
Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?
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The Origins of Artificial Respiration
At this point, no one knew what precisely the lungs did or what oxygen was. Hook demonstrated with his dog experiment that I mentioned in the RSV episode where he used those bellows through a cut in the dog's lungs. But how did the lungs do this? And why did all the blood pass through the lungs? Was it to cool the blood down, which was Galen's thought that still predominated during this last time?"
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