The Comparative Physiology of Respiratory Mechanisms / / Auqust Krogh.
August Krogh, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Biology, was one of the twentieth-century's great physiologists. This book, based on a series of lectures delivered at Swarthmore College in 1939, has since come to be recognized as a classic of exposition.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1941] ©1941 |
| Year of Publication: | 1941 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- I THE CALL FOR OXYGEN
- II THE ACCESS TO OXYGEN
- III THE FORCES ACTING IN THE TRANSPORT OF OXYGEN (AND C02) THROUGH LIVING TISSUES
- IV RESPIRATION IN WATER
- ν EMERGENCY RESPIRATION THE TRANSITION TO AIR-BREATHING
- VI RESPIRATION IN AIR
- VII THE RESPIRATORY FUNCTIONS OF BLOOD
- VIII TRACHEAL RESPIRATION
- IX CONCLUDING REMARKS
- LIST OF REFERENCES
- LIST OF ANIMALS