| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 214 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Failing hearts at high altitude: "brisket disease" in cattle teaches humans a medical lesson / Robert F. Grover -- A high point in human breathing: John Scott Haldane of Oxford on Pikes Peak / Piers C. Nye & John T. Reeves -- Major breathing in miners: Mabel Purefoy Fitzgerald, an intrepid scientist, visits Colorado's high mines / Robert W, Torrance & John T. Reeves -- An affair of the heart: the Grollmans and cardiac output on Pikes Peak / Arthur P. Grollman & John T. Reeves -- High cycling: Bruce Dill exercises Harvard men at the Leadville fish hatchery / John T. Reeves, David Bruce Dill, Jr., & Robert F. Grover -- Small babies among big mountains: John Lichty solves a Colorado mystery in Leadville / Lorna Grindlay Moore -- Wet lungs at high altitude: an Andean problem is found in the Colorado Rockies / Robert F. Grover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Altitude, Influence of -- Research -- Colorado -- History
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Mountain sickness -- Research -- Colorado -- History
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Altitudes.
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Atmospheric pressure.
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Altitude Sickness -- history
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Altitude
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Altitude Sickness -- veterinary
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Atmospheric Pressure
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History, 20th Century
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atmospheric pressure.
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MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
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Atmospheric pressure
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Altitudes
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| SUBJECT |
Colorado https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003120 |
| Subject |
Colorado
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reeves, John T
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Grover, Robert F., 1924-
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| ISBN |
0870816918 |
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9780870816918 |
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1280500972 |
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9781280500978 |
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9786610500970 |
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6610500975 |
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