Abstract
Just one hundred years ago, Paul Bert (1833-1886), a French physiologist and politician, had begun his studies on high pressure physiology, and 90 years ago, his immortal work “La Pression Barométrique, Recherches de Physiologie Expérimentale” was published. However, this book is not read, unfortunately, by alstmo of the researchers in Japan, as it is very difficult for them to get this hook.
In commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the publication of this great work, the biography of Bert and the outline of this book were shortly described.
This book is consist of 3 parts for each condition, low and high pressures: hisstorical reviews, his own experiments and summary and conclusions.
Comparing with the present status of high pressure physiology and its applications, the author picked up many of his interesting descriptions, and was surprised at a high level of knowledges and experiences on high pressure physiology and its applications at its dawning.
