The first edition of this famous book was published in 1969 and rapidly established itself alongside works by Comroe and Cotes as required reading for respiratory physiologists and especially for anaesthetists. This new edition—the original author having handed the torch to Lumb, maintains the high standards of its predecessors. As the editions have appeared changes in the arrangement of sections of the book have been made. These are most marked in this edition: basic principles, applied physiology, and the physiology of pulmonary disease now being the sections that contain the 33 chapters. The last section is a new venture and contains much new material. To keep the …