1837 MAGNUS, Heinrich Gustav (1802 – 1870)

Ueber die im Blute enthaltenen Gase, Sauerstoffe, Stickstoff, und Kohlensäure.

First quantitative analysis of the blood gases. Magnus proved that the arterial blood contains a higher concentration of oxygen than venous blood and that the latter had a higher carbon dioxide content.

GMN 929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/145

1857 MEYER, Julius Lothar (1830 – 1895)

Die Gase des Blutes.

Meyer showed that the oxygen in the blood was not held in simple solution but came off in quantity only when the air pressure was reduced to one fiftieth of an atmosphere.

GMN 934 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/160

1858 MEYER, Julius Lothar (1830 – 1895)

De sanguine oxydo carbonico infesto.

Investigation of the blood gases.

GMN 935 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/165

1923 HARTRIDGE, Hamilton (1886 – 1976); ROUGHTON, Francis John Worsley (1899 – 1972)

The velocity with which carbon monoxide displaces oxygen from combination with haemoglobin.

GMN 962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/267

1924 VAN SLYKE, Donald Dexter (1883 – 1971); NEILL, James M. (1894 – 1964)

The determination of gases in blood and other solutions by vacuum extraction and manometric measurement.

Method for the manometric analysis of gases in blood and other solutions.

GMN 963.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/273