Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology (eBook)

 1. Galen and the beginnings of Western physiology   2. Ibn al-Nafis, the pulmonary circulation, and the Islamic Golden  Age  3. Torricelli and the ocean of air: the first measurement of  barometric pressure  4. Robert Boyle’s landmark book of 1660 with the first experiments  on rarified air  5. The original presentation of Boyle's Law  6. Robert Hooke: Early respiratory physiologist, polymath, and  mechanical genius   7. Marcello Malpighi and the discovery of the pulmonary capillaries  and alveoli  8. Stephen Hales: neglected respiratory physiologist  9. Joseph Black, carbon dioxide, latent heat, and the beginnings of  the discovery of the respiratory gases   10. Carl Wilhelm Scheele, the discoverer of oxygen, and a very  productive chemist  11. Joseph Priestley, oxygen, and the Enlightenment  12. The collaboration of Antoine and Marie-Anne Lavoisier and the  first measurements of human oxygen consumption  13. Henry Cavendish, hydrogen, water, and the weight of the earth  14. Humphry Davy, nitrous oxide, the Pneumatic Institution, and the  Royal Institution  15. Denis Jourdanet (1815-1892) and the early recognition of the  role of hypoxia at high altitude  16. Centenary of the Anglo-American High Altitude Expedition to  Pikes Peak  17. Alexander M. Kellas and the physiological challenge of Mount  Everest  18. Ravenhill and his contributions to mountain sickness  19. George I. Finch and his pioneering use of oxygen for climbing  at extreme altitudes  20. Joseph Barcroft's studies of high altitude physiology  21. The physiological legacy of the Fenn, Rahn and Otis school  22. The physiological challenges of the 1952 Copenhagen  poliomyelitis epidemic and a renaissance in clinical  respiratory physiology  23. Historical aspects of the early Soviet/Russian manned space  program.