ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF CAPILLARIES. (Silliman Lectures at Yale.)

by Krogh, S. August

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New Haven:: Yale Univ.,, 1922. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; marginal pencil note, pg. 256.. + bibliography. With in-text b&w photos & drawings. First Edn. G-M 793. ||| Krogh (1874-1949), Danish physiologist, discovered capillary regulation of blood supply to muscles, how the number of open capillaries related to tissue activity; hence, working muscles receive more blood & oxygen (Nobel Prize 1920). ||| Earlier (1906) was awarded prize by Vienna Academy of Science for work on respiration, described in treatise `Mechanism of Gas Exchange in Lungs.'