Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — Mountain Sickness. [ARTICLE]

Mountain Sickness.

M. Regnard is a. French savant wh» has been investigating the causes of mountain sickness. He took two normal fowls in default of willing Alpists, and put them under a. vacuum pump with a diminution of pressure corresponding to an altitude of 10,000 feet. One of the fowls was allowed to take its ease, the othez had to turn a sort of squirrel cage. The one that was exerting itself showed signs of sickness, while the other remained unaffected. When, the vacuum was increased to a point corresponding with barometric pressure at 2,000 feet, both the fowle gave out and resigned themselves to die. The idle one, however, was shortly restored on, being released, whereas the other went through a. protracted and uncomfortable illness. The inference is that mountain sickness is as much due to fatigue and; wear of tissue as to rarity of the atmosphere, and that if lifts or balloons could be applied to the Himalayas, for instance, mountaineering would be deprived of one of its most unpleasant features. —i [Pall Mail Gazette.