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Available online /content/8/4/253 Review Bench-to-bedside review: A brief history of clinical acid–base David A Story Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Corresponding author: David A Story, David.Story@.au Published online: 30 April 2004 Critical Care 2004, 8:253-258 (DOI 10.1186/cc2861) This article is online at /content/8/4/253 ? 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract The history of assessing the acid–base equilibrium and associated disorders is intertwined with the evolution of the definition of an acid. In the 1950s