A field investigation was conducted to study cold acclimation in the Pitjandjara, a desert tribe
of Australian aborigines. Oxygen consumption and rectal and skin temperatures were taken …

Measurements of thermal and metabolic responses of central Australian aborigines exposed
to moderate cold during sleep were repeated during summer and have shown that the small…

Intravenous infusions of 5‐hydroxytryptamine creatinine sulphate in doses of 1,2, and 3 mg./min.
of the salt into 42 normal subjects caused a dilator response of the forearm vessels, …

Although no outbreak of mussel poisoning has ever been recorded in Australia the author
studied whether mussels along the Pacific Coast were poisonous in the summer during the …

The examination of an old sample of platypus venom and of one collected from a recently
dead animal emphasizes its resemblance to a very feebly toxic viperine venom. It possesses …

Intravenous injection of moderate doses of venom of Denisonia superba (Australian copperhead),
or Acanthopis antarcticus (death adder), which have no coagulant principle, causes a …

METHODS Dogs and cats were used for all of the experiments. Respiration was recorded by
methods already described(7, 8). Blood pressure was recorded usually from a carotid artery…

Attention is directed to certain incongruities among accepted diving procedures in order to
emphasize the need for a more complete understanding of the interactions between the …

Heymans, Bouckaert and Regniers(1), Heymans, Bouckaert and Dautreband(2), and Wright(3)
found that nicotine, lobe-line, cyanide and sulphide all stimulate respiration through the …

… CN WOOLSEY, DH LeMESSURIER …