Studies of Respiratory Physiology in the Newborn Infant: II. Observations during and after Respiratory Distress¹

An invitation to participate in this publication honoring Professor W allgren confers no small distinction on any American pediatrician. It also imposes a high standard of scientific scholarship upon those so invited. The Harvard group working with newborn infants are more hopeful of meeting that standard because of the recent presence of one of Dr. W allgren's own staff in our laboratory, a happy circumstance which has considerably increased the information we can contribute to this publication. Although we are submitting only a preliminary report of studies now in progress, the opportunity of presenting the data here was too tempting to be resisted by this international team of admirers of Professor W allgren , C. A. S.