Acid–Base Equilibrium(cliche paper yellow)

Abstract

The acid–base equilibrium is explained in a simple, linear manner. Pathogenesis and therapy of its basic modifications, acidosis and alkalosis, respiratory and metabolic, are described.

I don’t remember whether I took these notes, handwritten on negative paper yellow with age, many years ago during my specialist studies, or whether they are notes for a lecture, prepared while leafing through textbooks in an attempt to understand the incomprehensible so that I could explain it to others. Well...”onerat discentem turba, non istruit, multoque satius est paucis te auctoribus tradere, quam errare per multos” (The learner is not instructed, but burdened by the mass [of books], and it is far better to dedicate yourself to a few authors than to wander through many” (Seneca, De tranquillitate animi). Let’s hope it isn’t true this time!