This volume contains the series of five lectures by Anrep given in 1936 under the sponsorship of the Lane Medical Lecture Fund at Leland Stanford University. This series is devoted to circulatory physiology and is divided into the following subjects: (1) the proprioceptive mechanism of cardiovascular regulation, (2) respiratory regulation of the heart rate, (3) the dynamics of the coronary circulation, (4) the coronary blood flow and (5) the blood flow through skeletal and plain muscles.
These lectures represent a comprehensive discussion of the important experimental work in this field of physiologic research, a field in which the author's personal contributions have been outstanding.
The first two lectures are primarily a report of numerous experiments with regard to the control of the heart rate, showing the effects of changes in the pressure in the aorta and in the carotid sinus, in the oxygen and the carbon dioxide content of the