title: Hallmarks in the study of respiratory physiology and the crucial role of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794).
abstract: From the early 17th century the advent of physical and chemical sciences developed two important movements toward the explanation of all vital phenomena: the Iatrochemical and Iatromechanical Schools. The important research of their representatives such as Jan Baptist van Helmont, John Mayow, Robert Boyle, Gian Alfonso Borelli, Richard Lower, and Albrecht von Haller, followed by the discovery of the atmospheric gases, provided a fecund soil for the leading work of Lavoisier in respiratory physiology.
authors.affiliation: 4 str. Themidos, Kifissia, 14564, Athens, Greece. mkaramanou@med.uoa.gr.
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karamanou
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tsoucalas
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Androutsos
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002621:Chemistry / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D010100:Oxygen / Q000266:history*; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history*; D012143:Respiratory Physiological Phenomena
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen
keywords: combustion; history of respiratory physiology; oxygen; phlogiston theory