Christian Bohr og De syv små Djaevle: Et laerestykke i 4 akter om iltdiffusionsstriden mellem Christian Bohr og August Krogh

Translated title of the contribution: Christian Bohr and the Seven Little Devils
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Abstract

The author explores novel lessons emerging from the oxygen diffusion controversy between Christian Bohr on one side and August and Marie Krogh on the other. THe controversy found its emphatic expression in August and Marie Krogh's "Seven Little Devils", a series of papers published back-to-back in the 1910 volume of Skandinavisches Archiv für Physiologie. The Devils unjustifiably sealed the fate of Christian Bohr's theory of active cellular participation in the transport of oxygen from the lungs to the pulmonary circulation. The author's renewed examination of the original papers of Bohr and the Kroghs reveals that Bohr's concept of active cellular participation in diffusion is entirely compatible with the mechanism of capillary recruitment, for the discovery of which Krogh was later awarded Nobel's Prize, years after Bohr's untimely and unexpected death in 1911.
Udgivelsesdato: 2004-null
Translated title of the contributionChristian Bohr and the Seven Little Devils
Original languageDanish
JournalDansk Medicinhistorisk Aarbog
Pages (from-to)13-39
Number of pages26
ISSN0084-9588
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

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