Corneille Heymans

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1945

The Part Played by Vascular Presso- and Chemo-Receptors in Respiratory Control

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1965

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