Title: Living machinery : eight lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute, Boston, March, 1927 /
Authors: Hill, A. V. 1886-1977
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace,
Year: 1927
Subjects: Physiology; Physical Exertion; Biomechanical Phenomena; Physiology; Nerves; Muscles; Animal mechanics
Contents: Introduction -- Lecture I: Nerves and the Messages They Carry -- Lectures II: Muscles and How They Move -- Lectures III: The Heart and Some Other Muscles -- Lecture IV: The Lungs and Blood. How the Muscles get Air and Fuel -- Lecture: V: Nerves and Muscles Working Together -- Lecture VI: Speed, Strength, and Endurance -- Lecture VII: Physiology as a Meeting Ground of Sciences -- Lecture VIII: Mechanism and Purpose.