On the relation of blood-volume to the nutrition of the tissues. II. The effects of hemorrhage and subsequent injections of gumsaline upon the volume-flow of blood through the striated muscle of the dog

Abstract

The effects of blood-volume upon the volume-flow of blood were studied by means of the drop method. While in some animals hemorrhage amounting to 1 per cent. of the body weight had a relatively small effect, in many animals the same or smaller hemorrhage markedly decreased the volume-flow of blood. Subsequent injections of a 6 per cent. suspension of gum in a 0.9 per cent. sodium chloride solution augmented the flow out of all proportion to the dilution entailed.