The effect of changes in lung volume on the size and shape of alveoli

1. A technique is described by which living anaesthetized guinea‐pigs were artificially ventilated with a positive and negative pressure cycle, and rapidly frozen at the instant of cessation of ventilation at a preselected point on the respiratory cycle.

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