The effect of exercise on the hæmoglobin with reference to the value of rest in the treatment of anæmia / by Wilfrid Edgecombe.

  • Edgecombe, Wilfrid.
Date:
[1898?]
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Credit: The effect of exercise on the hæmoglobin with reference to the value of rest in the treatment of anæmia / by Wilfrid Edgecombe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    creased fall of 3 per cent, on exercise days over no exercise days. The exercise taken varied in kind and amount, but on each of the thirty-five days it was considerable. The primary effect, then, of exercise appears to be to increase the normal day fall. Chart 11 shows the result of observations made on the blood of a hospital nurse aged 22 for a fortnight, the first half of which she was on day duty, the second half on night duty. (The readings were taken immediately after rising and before retiring to rest.) mo 99 98 97 too 99 98 97 96 101 St De or*1 \ \ 'm 3ft IT 0 / t / / 0 Hemoglobin Volume of Corpuscles Worth of Corpuscle Chart in shows two examples of the result of exercise, the first (2 hrs. cycling and horse riding) without sensible perspiration, the second (2 hrs. hard tennis) with profuse perspiration.