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BERT, PAUL. La Pression Barométrique. Wood-engraved text illustrations. Half-title. Large 8vo, original cloth, rebacked retaining rubbed original
BERT, PAUL. La Pression Barométrique. Wood-engraved text illustrations. Half-title. Large 8vo, original cloth, rebacked retaining rubbed original backstrip; repair in blank outer margin of one leaf; decent ex-library copy, with stamps on title, and bookplate (with release stamp). Paris, 1878
- Notes: first edition. "The greatest work in the history of altitude physiology, in which Bert proved that the principal symptoms of altitude sickness arise from reduced partial pressure of oxygen and not from diminution of total pressure. Bert introduced oxygen apparatus to avert the dangerous consequences of ascent to high altitudes... He also explained the aetiology and mechanism of caisson disease"--Garrison-Morton 944. Hoff & Fulton 227; Norman 218.
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