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6 entries match United States [Z01.058] · Physiology & Embryology [G07 / G02.149]
2006 CE
#8656
A most amazing scene of wonders: Electricity and enlightenment in early America.
"By examining the lives and visions of natural philosophers, spectacular showmen, religious preachers and medical therapists, he shows how electrical experiences of wonder, terror, and awe were connected to a broad ar…
1871 CE
#10483
Physical effects of compressed air, and of the causes of pathological symptoms produced on man, by increased atmospheric pressure employed for the sinking of piers, in the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.
Study of caisson disease and its treatement resulting from experience in treating workmen constructing the Eads Bridge, which opened in 1874. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1913 CE
#957
Physiological observations made on Pike’s Peak, Colorado, with special reference to adaptation to low barometric pressures.
1987 CE
#11024
Physiology in the American context, 1850-1940. Edited by Gerald L. Geison.
Traces the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts: social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and t…
1987 CE
#7857
The development of American physiology: Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century.
1873 CE
#10482
The effects of high atmospheric pressure, including the caisson disease.
Classic study of caisson disease. Smith was "Late Surgeon to the New York Bridge Co. (Caisson Work)", treating workmen who built the Brooklyn Bridge. The Eads Bridge (St. Louis) and the Brooklyn Bridge (New York City)…