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High Altitude Medicine

and Physiology

The authors, with two other colleagues, outside the Silver Hut at 5800 m in the Everest region

during the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition, 1960-1961. Left to right:

Dr.J.S. Milledge, Professor J.B. West, Dr. LG.C.E. Pugh, Dr. M.P. Ward and Dr. M.B. Gill.

High Altitude Medicine and

Physiology

3rd Edition

Michael P Ward CBE, MD, FRCS

Past Master, Society of Apothecaries of London, formerly Consultant Surgeon and Lecturer in Clinical

Surgery, London Hospital Medical College, London, UK

James S Milledge MD, FRCP

Formerly Consultant Respiratory Physician and Medical Director, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK

John B West MD, PHD, DSC, FRCP, FRACP

Professor of Medicine and Physiology, the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA

A member of the Hodder Headline Group

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