INTRACEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW

Abstract

During the past ten years, Forbes and his co-workers have published the results of their experiments on the activity of the cerebral circulation. This work has been confined for the most part to the pial vessels, of which they have worked out in detail the reactions to many agents. More recently, Schmidt and Pierson¹have studied the activity of the blood flow in the substance of the brain in various areas by means of a thermoelectric method similar to that reported by Gibbs.²These studies have thrown a great deal of light on the much disputed subject of the cerebral circulation and have established certain well defined facts concerning its activity. In the hope of adding data in this field, the thermoelectric method of Gibbs was used to study the effect of various agents on the blood flow through the parietal area of the cat's brain. TECHNIC The