Observations Upon the Effect of High Altitude on the Physiological Processes of the Human Body, Carried Out in the Peruvian Andes, Chiefly at Cerro De Pasco. Report to the Peru High-Altitude-Committee
by Barcroft, Joseph, et. Al
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About This Item
1923. Separate issue from Philosophical Transactions, series B, vol. 211 (23 January 1923), pp. 351-480. Original pages without a separate title page (as issued), bound in original cloth binding lettered on front cover. Errata slip loose at front. Copy of Henry S. Forbes, a coauthor of the report, who has signed the front flyleaf. In an envelope mounted on the front pastedown a typed letter on Harvard University stationery and bearing a Harvard gold seal signed by A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, requesting that courtesies be extended to Forbes in connection with his study of the physical effects on life at high altitude. Spine ends repaired; rear cover unevenly faded.. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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- Observations Upon the Effect of High Altitude on the Physiological Processes of the Human Body, Carried Out in the Peruvian Andes, Chiefly at Cerro De Pasco. Report to the Peru High-Altitude-Committee
- Author
- Barcroft, Joseph, et. Al
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Medicine, Science, High-altitude Physiology
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