# Yandell Henderson

Physiologist; respiration and carbon dioxide · 1873–1944

American physiologist at Yale whose research on respiration, oxygen, and carbon dioxide — including work on acapnia and the resuscitative use of CO₂ — is a primary source for the bioenergetic emphasis on carbon dioxide as a protective, structurally important gas in metabolism.

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## In their own words

> Acapnia is a deficiency of carbon dioxide that leads in turn to a deficiency of oxygen also.

CO2 · Adventures in Respiration: Modes of Asphyxiation and Methods of Resuscitation · 1938

> We see that respiration is almost life itself; yet not quite, for we find that thought is not merely physical energy.

Respiration · Adventures in Respiration: Modes of Asphyxiation and Methods of Resuscitation · 1938

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## Books

Full-length works in the corpus.

- Adventures in Respiration: Modes of Asphyxiation and Methods of Resuscitation (1938)