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VOL. 23 of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology is dedicated by his past and present assistants to Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer, in honour of his eighty-third birthday. It contains thirty-one papers, which have been collected and edited by Dr. Argyll Campbell and Sir Leonard Hill, two of his former assistants. The list of those who have participated in the production of the volume contains twenty-nine names, covering a period of nearly fifty years. It is unnecessary to mention the great advances made by physiology in this time, advances to which Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer has himself in no small degree contributed. In the present volume, the original contributions cover many different aspects of physiological science, from the effects of posture on heart-rate and blood pressure and the discomfort of close rooms caused by infra-red rays, to studies on arginase, the effect of formaldehyde on vitamin B! and variations of the anterior pituitary hormone in the blood in pregnancy, to mention only a few. Examination of the volume gives a good idea of the branches of physiology in which interest is being taken at the present time and indicates that this science is rapidly adding to our store of knowledge.
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology . Nature 132, 927 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132927b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132927b0