CRC Handbook of Animal Models of Pulmonary Disease, Volume I
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: October 31, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780849329784
Subjects: Animal physiology; Respiratory medicine; Medical / Nursing; Respiratory Diseases; etiology; Health/Fitness; Pathology; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Diseases; Animal models; Disease Models, Animal; Lung diseases; Lungs
First sentence: The potential for adverse effects from exposure to hyperoxia was suspected by Priestly more than 2 centuries ago: " . . . for, as a candle burns outs much faster in dephlogisticated than in common air, so we might, as may be said, live out too fast, and the animal powers be too soon exhausted in this pure kind of air."