Lung Function [antikvár]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSIt is a pleasure to acknowledge my indebtedness to those who have stimulated my interest in lung function. They include Drs (now Professors) J.N.Mills and D.Whitteridge then at Oxford, Professor R.V.Christie then at St Bartholemew's Hospital, London, Air Commodore W.K.Stewart at the R.A.F. Institute of Aviation Medicine, Dr R.L.Riley at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, members of the Respiratory Journal Club and my present colleagues at the P.R.U.In writing this account I have been benefited from discussion with Dr P.Hugh Jones, Mrs M.McDermott, Mr F.Meade, Mr P.D.Oldham, Mr J.R.Reynolds and others. Dr J.D.Bali, Dr H.M.Foreman, Professor R.E.Lane, Dr W.J.Smithers, Dr A.J. Thomas and Dr G.O.Thomas have kindly given me access to their records of cases referred for assessment. Drs J.M.Bishop and J.B.West and Dr J.C.Gilson have commented on and improved successive versions of the text and Drs C.B.McKerrow and J.C.Wagner, Squadron Leader J.Ernsting, Dr R.Peset, Miss A.Hall and others have suggested alterations to some of the chapters. Many of the good features of the book are due to the help which I have received in this way. Many authors have kindly supplied me with data or allowed me to reproduce their diagrams; their authorship is acknowledged in the text or caption and the source may be found by reference to the index. Several illustration are reproduced by kind permission of the editors of Ada Physiologica and Acta Medica Scandinavica, American Journal of Physiology, American Physiological Society, British Medical Bulletin, British Medical Journal, Diseases of the Chest, Journal of Applied Physiology, Journal of Physiology, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of