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ODDLY enough, engineers have always enjoyed a thrill when shown the working mechanism of any bodily organ; the beating of an isolated heart taken from a tortoise, for example, arranged to circulate a suitable saline fluid, usually commands more admiration from an engineer than from a physiologist. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Institution of Mechanical Engineers should have invited a physiologist to deliver the Thomas Hawksley Lecture on November 29, and to present some of the more mechanical and physico-chemical processes taking place in the human body. Their selection, happily, fell upon Prof. A. V. Hill, Foulerton research professor of the Royal Society and a distinguished biophysicist.
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Mechanism of the Human Body. Nature 137, 119–120 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137119a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137119a0