André F. Cournand

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1956

Control of the Pulmonary Circulation in Man with Some Remarks on Methodology

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964

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