Excerpt from Tenth Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council: September 1982 The causes of some diseases within the responsibilities of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, such as acute respiratory failure in the adult, have proven difficult to understand and little progress has been made despite ih tensive research efforts. These unsolved research problems remain the highest priority for the Institute and need to be addressed both through investigator initiated research and Institute-initiated programs. Followup on knowledge aris ing from basic research offers the best chance to improve patient care and education, both for prevention and treatment of disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.