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DURING a year spent as medical officer to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in the Antarctic at Marguerite Bay, I had the opportunity of making some observations on cold acclimatization in eleven men.
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BUTSON, A. Acclimatization to Cold in the Antarctic. Nature 163, 132–133 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163132b0
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