This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By Clarence A. Mills, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Experimental Medicine, University of Cincinnati. Price, $4.50. Pp. 296. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1939;30(6):1061-1062.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The author stresses the importance of climatic environment to the basic physiologic reactions of the body, the combustion rate, energy level, rate of growth and development, resistance to infection and many other vital characteristics. He has assembled the facts from the knowledge thus gained, drawing freely from the researches of eminent workers, as well as his own first class contributions, into a volume of 296 pages.

The arrangement of the text and subject matter, the illustrations, type and format are excellent. Many diseased states are considered in the causation or perpetuation of which climatic environment may play a part. Some advice is given, in a number of the discussions, that should aid not a little toward the attainment of better results.

Colonization for climatically handicapped persons and the conditioning of indoor environments are detailed in separate chapters. The index is complete and informative.

Though some comments are made on keeping . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?