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DIVING
AND SUBAQUATIC MEDICINE
Carl Edmonds, Christopher
Lowry and John Pennefather
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First edition
1976. (Blue cover, far left column). Diving Medical Centre, Mosman, NSW.
ISBN 0 959 7191 0 5
Hardcover, dustjacket, 396
pages, mono drawings, charts, index.
Second edition 1981. (Blue
and green cover left). Diving Medical Centre, Mosman, NSW. ISBN 0 959 5031
0 2.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 571
pages. mono and colour prints, drawings, charts., index
Third edition: ?
Four edition, (Blue
with divers, left below): pubished in USA by Oxford Univeristy Press, 2002
This was, and probably remains,
the 'bible' for hypernbaric medicine in Australia and certainly since its
first release had been a mjor txt for diving doctors, intructors, profssional
divers and the serious sport diver. Being published in Australia its cost
was within the range of most divers, aroun $45 initially and then gradually
up to $84.00, but in th late 1990s I think it was, it went overseas
for publication. This meant more sales and more money for the authors but
the latest, current, recommended retail of this book in Australia is a
ridiculous $275.00. (It is US $90 in the USA). When I queried this high
cost with the Australian distributor I was told, I quote," "it is an acedemic
text and we can charge what we like for academic books" Thats probably
true and doctors and professional divers can made a small claim on their
tax,but it does leave the serious amateur out in the cold.
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AN
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DIVING AND SUBMARINE MEDICINE
Shilling and Werts
Gordon & Breach. 1971
Hardcover, vii, 622
p., index. 26. 8 cm |
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DIVING
AND HYPERBARIC MEDICINE REVIEW FOR PHYSICIANS
Jolie Bookspan. |
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DIVING
INJURIES: RESEARCH FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REDUCING CTASTROPHIC
INJURIES
Editor-Milton Gabrielsen
Informa HealthCare, 2000.
(ISBN:0849323703 / 0-8493-2370-3)
Hardcover. |
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EXPEDITION
MEDICINE
David Warrell, David Warrell
and Sarah Anderson, Sarah Anderson
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers,
2002. (ISBN: 1579583342 /1-57958-334-2)
Hardcover.
From sales blurb: This is
a completely rewritten and revised second edition of the now standard text,
prepared under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society of Great
Britain. Comprehensively updated to take into account new research findings
and medicines, and adapted for the American explorer, "Expedition Medicine"
is written by renowned experts in their fields and provides a wealth of
practical tips and advice, as well as extensive details about first aid
kits, emergency procedures, and evacuation routines. Coverage includes
sections on every kind of travel from desert to mountain, canoeing to diving,
and off-road driving to walking, with valuable information on vaccinations,
medicines, and hygiene. 398 pages. |
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GETTING
IN SHAPE FOR SKIN AND SCUBA DIVING
Curtis Mitchell.
Association Press, New Century
Publishers Inc., New Jersey, 1981.
Softcover, 158 pges, no
photos, no diagrams, index.
Chapters include 'The New
Science of hysical Fitness', 'Conditioning Drills to Improve Your skills',
'A Perfect Dive Every Time', Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and the Human Body',
'Diving Maladies'.Still quite a useful book. [cd] |
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HISTORY
OF HYPERBARIC CHAMBERS
Gerhard F. K. Haux
(English translation by
Petra Lohmeyer and contributions by W.T. Workman)
Published by: Best Publishing
Company, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA in 2000
Illustrated hard back covers;
154 printed pages. Dimensions: 23.5 cms tall by 16 cms wide.
The author has investigated
and describes 300 years of history of pressure chambersbut he does say
that the book may not be “exhaustive”. The book ranges from Robert
Boyle in 1660 through to chambers made in 1999. Divided into 3 sections:
“Past Present and Future in a Nutshell”, “The Development of Hyperbaric
Chamber Design Traced Back to the Very Beginnings”, and “What Does the
Future Design and Clinical Hyperbaric Chamber look Like?”. The second
section chronologically covers the history from 1660 up to 2000 covering
a variety of related topics and subjects. Extremely well illustrated
with monochrome diagrams and photographs. [pt]
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MEDICAL
ASPECTS OF SPORT DIVING.
Christopher W. Ducker. |
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RESPIRATION
J S Haldane.
Originally published
in 1922 by Yale University Press, New Haven, USA. Oxford University Press
also listed. Hardcover, green cloth boards, 427 pages, mono plates, noi
index, no bibliography. Dimensions 23 x 15.5 cm. Fourteen chapters: Historical
Introduction; Carbon Dioxide and Regulation of Breathing; The Newvopus
Control of Breathing; The Blood as a Carrier of Oxygen; The Blood as a
Carrier of Carbon Dioxide; The Effects of Want of Oxygen; The Causes of
Anoxaemia; Blood Reaction and Breathing; Gas Secretion in the Lungs; Bllod
Circulation and Breathing; Air of Abnormal composition; Effects of High
Atmospheric Pressures; Effects of Lowe Atmospheric Pressures; General Conclusions.
Also appendix A to E.
New edition by J
S Haldane and J G Priestly, published by Yale University Press USA, Oxford
University Press, UK in 1935. Hard back, green covers; 478 printed
pages. Dimensions: 25 cms tall by 16 cms wide.
This is a book of extreme
technical detail but tells everything you need to know about the work that
Haldane did, including the work he did on cracking the diving decompression
problem and introducing successful decompression tables. The book
is broken into 13 chapters: “Historical Introduction”, “Carbon Dioxide
and Regulation of Breathing”, “The Blood as a Carrier of Carbondioxide”,
“Hydrogen-Ion Pressure and Breathing”, “The Nervous Control of Breathing”,
“The Blood as a Carrier of Oxygen”, “The Effects of Want of Oxygen”, “The
Causes of Anoxaemia”, “Oxygen Secretion in the Lungs”, “Effects of Low
Atmospheric Pressure”, “Effects of High Atmospheric Pressure”, “Blood Circulation
and Breathing” and Air of Abnormal Composition”. In terms of
diving content, the book looks at the decompression problem and looks at
the experiments including the goat chambers. There's detail of things
like Davis's decompression chamber, caisson workers and bell workers.
Extremely well illustrated with many monochrome plates and countless illustrations
embedded in the text.As you would expect, the book is extremely well illustrated
with countless monochrome diagrams and photographs. [pt-1935],[ps-1922]
Additional note: There is
apparently a marked difference between the two editions, although I have
not had the opportunity to compare them side-by-side. The 1935 edition
is physically larger, yet has fewer chapters; and the chapter heaadings
and perhaps contebt is different. Likewise, the mono plates are different,
possibly more prolific in the 1935 edition. It is of course the chaper
headed 'Effects of High Atmospheric Pressure' that is of particular interest
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THE
BENDS
Compressed Air on the History
of Science, Diving and Engineering.
John L. Phillips, M.D.
Yale University Press, New
Haven (USA), and London. 1998.
Hardcover dust jacket, indexs,
bibliography, notes, a few mono photographs.
I had this book for quite
some time before I read it, thinking it would be an academic threatise
in academic prose on the subject, but had cause one day to have a closer
look when a client was seaking material on - ‘The Bends'. I took the book
home. It was very easy to read and as it captured the life of those living
in the period of the 18th and 19th centuries, engineering interests, and
of course, the relevance to diving, I could not put it down once started.
Its starts with the ‘discovery' of the atmosphere or to be more precise,
the increasing understanding of the air we inhabit and breath - the needs
for atmospheric pumps to empty flooded mines - and continues very quickly
into the health and safety problems experienced when we mess about with
it - like put ourselves under extreme atmospheric pressure. There was not
much need to do this untill we started to build bridges over water and
workers had to construct foundations underwater, or more specifically,
surrounded by water, which proliferated in the early and mid 19th century.
From the blurb: With the
invention of compressed air in the 1840s, human divers could enter previously
inaccessible deepwater environments, and engineers could design underwater
mines and monumental bridges that had never been possible before.
But a painful, sometimes fatal ilness - decompression sickness, or the
bends-mysteriously afflicted many of those who used compressed air. This
book is a wide-ranging history of the wonders compressed air brought about
and the suffering its unknown hazards inflicted. John L. Phillips
explores the intertwining roles of science, technology, engineering, medicine,
and politics in the invention of compressed air, the recognition and identification
of decompression sickness, and the hundredyear-long process of learning
to understand and treat the bends. The book begins with an Overview of
the biology and chemistry of respiration and a discussion of the steamn
engine that could generate compressed air. Drawing on previously
unpublished letters, diarties, and notes, Phillips recounts the early uses
of compressed air, the first observations of decompression sickness, the
growing awareness of the bends during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge,
and efforts to understand the pathophysiology of the illness. He
then considers employee health and safety issues, the science of diving
today, and human limits to exploring the oceans' depths. In the history
of compressed air and its illnesses, Phillips, a fellow in Urological oncology
at the National Cancer Institute (USA) finds important lessons for
dealing with other diseases yet to be confronted in the modern world. Recreational
and comercial divers would find this book fascinating. Hyperbaric doctors
may not gain a great deal of academic knowledge but they will no doubt
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THE
MASTERY OF AIR
Published by: Sir Isaac
Pitman, London in 1922.
Plain hard covers with 184
printed pages
Dimensions: 18.5 cms tall
by 12.5 cms
I'm not sure who actually
worte this small book in the "Pitman's Mastery Series" but it says "by
the author of The Triumph of Man". The book, which I am sure is aimed at
juveniles, takes a look at how man has mastered air in so many ways which
includes six chapters on diving and other underwater related subjects as
you will see from the list of chapters which follows. Within the sections
there are 12 monochrome diving prints, many of which are familiar and reproduced
with "kind permission of Messrs, Siebe, Gorman & Co Ltd". The whole
book consists of 28 chapters, all different themes regarding our use of
air: "When the Wind Blows", "Weighing the Air", "Air Pumps", "Diving",
"Diving in the Navy", "The Romance of Diving", "Raising the Wreck", "The
Diving Bell", "The Pneumatic Caisson", "Navigating the Oceans of Air",
"Famous Baloon Voyages", "Limited Liability", "The Balloon in War", "Flying
Kites", "Gliding", "The Construction of Aeroplanes", "Aeroplane Engines",
"The Aeroplane in War", "Famous Flights", "Airships", "The Construction
of Dirigible Balloons", "Santos-Dumont and Count Zeplin", "Airships of
To-Day", "Liquid Air", "How Cold is Produced", "Mastery at Last", "What
Is Air" and "The Breath of Life".
In all, there are
53 illustrations, many of which are monochrome photographs. The book is
one of a series of four by the publisher, each dealing with the elements
of earth, fire, air and water - each prefixed with "The Mastery of" in
the title. In all a very interesting book with some absolutely fascinating
chapters from the time. [pt] |
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UNDERWATER
MEDICINE
Surgeon Captain, Stanley
Miles.
Published by the Staples
Press of London, England, 1962.
Second edition (this red
cover), 1966.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 332
page, illustrated text.
Dr. Miles was the Surgeon
Captain, R.N., Director of Medical Resarch, Royal Navy Medical School,
Hants. Deals with dangerous health conditions divers are exposed to underseas,
including the bends and encounters with poisonous sea creatures.
Other editions 1966, 1969.
UNDERWATER MEDICINE.
Stanley
Miles and D.E.Mackay.
Fourth edition (as photographed
green cover), 1975, published by Adlard Coles Limited, London.
Hardcover, dustjacket, 328
pages, mono prints charts, index, bibliography. Certainly the 'bible' of
hyperbaric medicine in its day, and still of value to this day. Chapters:
The Challenge, The Physical Approach, The Physiological Approach, Underwater
Research Facilities, The Effects f Increased Pressure, The Problm of Density,
Inert Gas Narcosis, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and Other Gases, Vision, hearing
and Special Senses; Decompression, Saturation Diving, Some Underwater Accidents,
Drowning. The tratment of the Apparently Drowned, Water Safety, Selection
and Training of Divers and Underwater Swimmers, Life Support Equipment,
Submersibles, Habitats and Compression Chambers; The Submarine; Submarine
Escape and Free Ascent, Marine Animals.
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