title: On heat, respiration, and calorimetry.
abstract: The technique of indirect calorimetry developed with the sciences of nutrition and physiology over the course of hundreds of years. It was in fact fundamental to the establishment of these disciplines. This review describes the development of the technology and the principles of body function it has revealed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Nutrition, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA. Dfrankenfield@hmc.psu.edu
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Frankenfield
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001831:Body Temperature; D002153:Calorimetry, Indirect / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000266:history*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D012119:Respiration