Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — Effect of High Altitudes. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Effect of High Altitudes.

Some German savants have shown recently, that there is a notable increase in the proportion of the number of corpuscles in the blood in persons who go from a low to a high altitude. This increase takes place in from twenty-four to thirty-six hours. It is possible that this fact may be one of the reasons for the benecial effects of high altitude in cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. . Almost all opinions are narrow, because almost all opinions ar» based on personal experience,

AN EXPERIENCE IN THE LIFE OF AN OLD-TIME DRIVER.