Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2232

JOHN SCOTT HALDANE (1860-1936) Respiration. Yale University Press [1922] xviii, 427 pp., illus., plates. 22.7 cm.

Much of our fundamental knowledge of the physiology of respiration is due to the work of Haldane, the Oxford physiologist whose interests in pulmonary gas exchange led him to investigate such areas as the respiration centers of the brain, the chemical regulation of respiration, gas analysis, basal metabolism, mining hygiene, gas warfare, and high altitude physiology (a study which eventually culminated in a 1913 expedition to Pike's Peak in Colorado). This basic work of respiration is based on the Silliman lectures which Haldane presented at Yale University and is justly regarded as one of the finest treatises in the field of modern physiology.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 961 (1935 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.