Microaerosols [antikvár]

Foreword This book summarizes experimental and technical data collected by the author and various co-workers during many years of research on aerosols. It is written in the hope that it will help to provide information for and arouse interest in continued studies in this field. Emphasis is given to the production, sampling, measurement, and biological importance of submicronic and submicroscopic air-borne particles and to their physiological, pharmacological, and therapeutic effects after their deposition in the respiratory tract. This book has been preceded by a monograph published in 1958 in Rochester, New York, as a University of Rochester Atomic Energy Project Report. The chapters pertaining to physiology, pharmacology, and therapeutics of aerosols have been retained from the first monograph, and brought up to date here. A long chapter in the original work, which described the process and results of dust agglutination with sodium chloride microaerosols, has been eliminated; however, nine chapters relative to recent experimental techniques and findings have been added to this publication. The bibliography of the present issue is reduced to that of the new chapters; for a more complete list of references (over 3000), the reader may consult UR Report-530, available from the Ofiice of Technical Services, Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C. In the original Rochester edition, the author acknowledged the help he has received from the U. S. National Institutes of Health; the U. S. Public Health Service; the Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga; the Silicosis Research Institute in Bochum, Germany; and the Atomic Energy Project, University of Rochester. To this list should now be added the Department of Health and Welfare, Ottawa and Quebec, Canada; the Department of Physiology, University of Montreal, Canada; the J. F. Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, University of Ghent, Belgium; and the Department of Education, Brussels, Belgium. The author wishes to express anew his gratitude to all these institutions and especially to the University of Rochester Medical School. The