Stories by P. F. Scholander

The Master Switch of Life

Studies of diving have led to the identification of the vertebrate animal's ultimate defense against asphyxia: a gross redistribution of the circulation that concentrates oxygen in the brain and heart...

December 1, 1963 — P. F. Scholander

The Sciences

"The Wonderful Net"

These words are a translation of rete mirabile, an arrangement of blood vessels in which animals can conserve heat and oxygen pressure by applying the principle of counter-current exchange...

April 1, 1957 — P. F. Scholander