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1 1 . Foods and Nutrition 



Babkin. B. p.: Pavlov. A Biography. Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 1949. A 

 Russian scientist who was devoted to fact. His most notable investigations were 

 made upon conditioned reflexes. In 1904 he received a Nobel prize for his work 

 on the digestive system. 



Cannon, W. B.: The Wisdom of the Body. rev. ed. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 

 Inc., 1939. The content of the body: thirst and hunger as means of assuring 

 supplies, the constant balance of water, salt, sugar, protein, fat, and calcium 

 contents; the constancy of body temperature; the natural defenses of the body. 

 See Chapter 9, The Internal Environment and The Quality of Life. 



Carlson. A. J., and V. Johnson: The Machinery of the Body, 4th ed. Chicago, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago Press, 1954. Excellent reference. 



Gerard, R. W., ed.: Food for Life. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1952. Chapters 

 of note are: Preparation from Mouth to Cell; Enzymes Effective Agents; The Foods 

 of Animals and Men. 



Sherman, H. C: Tiie Nutritional Improveiiient of Life. New York, Columbia University 

 Press, 1950. Traces the growth of man's awareness of nutrition; traces details of ad- 

 vances in major fields — energy foods, proteins and their amino acids, the mineral 

 elements, and the vitamins; gives basic principles of nutrition, present-day ap- 

 proaches to malnutrition, vitamin deficiencies; describes the human body as a 

 biochemical organism. 



12. Circulation and Transportation — Body Fluids 



Amberson, W. R., and D. C. Smith: Outline of Physiology, 2nd ed. Baltimore, Williams 

 & Wilkins Co., 1948. A standard reference book. 



Best, H. B., and N. B. Taylor: The Living Body, A Text in Human Physiology, 3rd ed. 



New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1952. A dependable, interesting, and useful book to 



own. 

 Carlson, A. J., and V. Johnson: Machinery of the Body, 4th ed. Chicago, University 



of Chicago Press, 1954. 



Clark-Kennedy, A. E.: Stephen Hales (1677-1761). An Eighteenth Century Biography. 

 Cambridge. England. Cambridge University Press, 1929. Between his sermons Hales 

 made observations on the circulation of blood which rank with those of Harvey. 

 Classed as one of the best biographies of a scientific man written in recent years. 



Ham, a. W.: Histology, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1953. 



Harvey, William: The Motion of the Heart and Blood. (Original edition 1628). 

 Translated with notes by C. D. Leake. Springfield, 111., Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 

 1931. Harvey's own account of his experiments and conclusions. 



Maximow, a. a., and W. Bloom: A Textbook of Histology, 6th ed. Philadelphia, 

 W. B. Saunders Co., 1952. 



13. The Release of Energy — Respiration 



Armstrong, H. G.: Aviation Medicine, 3rd ed. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co., 1952. 



Gerard, R. W.: The Body Functions. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1941. Discussions 

 are stimulating, clearly written, and brief. 



Krogh, a.: The Comparative Physiology of Respiratory Mechanisms. The Cooper 

 Foundation Lectures at Swarthmore College 1939. Philadelphia, University of 

 Pennsylvania Press, 1941. Excellent reference, clear, authoritative, brief. 



Schneider, E. C, and P. V. Karpovich: Physiology of Muscular Activity, 3rd ed. 

 Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Co., 1948. Good reference for respiration, blood 

 content, and circulation. 



Stackpole, C. E., and L. C. Leavell: Textbook of Physiology. New York. The Mac- 

 millan Co., 1953. See Section 4 on respiration. Brief and meaty, an excellent book 

 to own. 



