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Index 



Frezier, explanation of mountain sick- 

 ness, 26 



Fruit, experiments on, dry rot, 843-844: 

 ripening of, 844-845 



Fujiyama, ascents of, 163 



de Franqueville, ascent of Nethou, 122 



Gal, Dr. Alphonse, pathogeny of caisson 

 disease, 486-487 



physiological observations on divers, 

 395-405 

 Gallard, Dr., report of deaths in caisson 



explosion, 383-384 

 Gamard, ascent of the Jungfrau, 118 

 Gardiner, ascent of Elbrouz, 125 

 Garnerin, Jacques, ascension from Mos- 

 cow, 177 



use of parachute, 177 

 Gas analysis, method used by Bert, 512 

 Gavarret, article Atmosphere in Diction- 

 naire Encyclopedique, 279 

 effect of air pressure on hematosis. 250 

 effect of excess carbon dioxide in blood, 



274 

 hemorrhages in decompression, 482 

 Gay, Claude, soroche in the Cordillera, 45 

 Gay-Lussac, altitude reached, 174 

 ascension with Biot, 179 

 symptoms noted in later ascension, 180 

 Gerard, Alexandre, journeys in Himalayas, 



134-138, 154, 221-223 

 Gillis, Lieut., symptoms of mountain sick- 

 ness, 49 

 Giraud-Teulon, refutation of mechanical 

 explanation of mountain sickness, 245 

 i1?9 her ' comment on report of Andreoli, 

 series of ascensions with Coxwell, 186- 



suggestion of artificial aid to respira- 

 tion, 191 



summary of physiological svmptoms in 

 ascension, 190 

 Glanders, experiments on, 847 

 Glas, G., ascent of Peak of Teneriffe, 74 

 Glennie, Lieut, W., attack of soroche, 61 

 Godwin-Austen, Capt., in Himalayas, 155 

 Gondret, explanation of symptoms of 



mountain sickness, 220 

 Gosse, anatomy of Peruvian Indians, 302 



questionnaire on mountain sickness, 303 

 de Gourbillon, ascent of Etna, 72 

 de la Gournerie, compressed air in boat, 



361 

 Govan, Dr., electricity as cause of moun- 

 tain sickness, 221 

 Grafts, animal, effect of oxygen at high 



tension on, 841 

 Grandidier, E., discussion of soroche, 51 

 Grene, balloon ascensions, 183 



balloon engineer for Welsh, 186 



inaccuracies of statement, 184 

 Gros, Baron, ascent of Popocatepetl 61 

 Grove, Craufurd, symptoms on the Alps, 



Gubbins, ascent of Fujiyama, 163 



Guerard, A., weight supported in com- 

 pressed air, 453 



Guericke, Otto von, invention of pneu- 

 matic pump, 196 



Guichard, respiration in compressed air. 



Guilbert, Dr. Charles, description of so- 

 roche in La Paz, 53 

 explanation of mountain sickness, 254 



Guinea pigs, experiments on temperature 

 and oxygen consumption, 219 



Gunnison, Capt., ascent of Mount Creek. 

 Col.. 68 



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Haigh, Samuel, symptoms of mountain 



sickness on Cumbre, 33 

 Halle and Nysten, physiological effects of 

 compressed air, 445 



theory of hemorrhages in rarefied air, 217 

 theory of respiration in rarefied air, 217 

 Haller, effects of compressed air, 443 



effects of rarefied (mountain) air, 210-211 

 Halley, Dr., improvements in diving-bell 



355, 390 

 Hamel, Dr., ascent of Mont Blanc, 89 

 descent in diving-bell, 356 

 plans for experiments on Mont Blanc. 

 223 

 Hamilton, ascent of Argaeus, 127 

 Hardwicke, Capt. Thomas, in Little Thibet, 



131 

 Hardy, ascent of Finsteraarhorn, 116 

 Hawaii, ascents in, 164-165 

 Hawes, ascent of Mont Blanc, 91 

 Hayward, in Little Thibet, 156 

 Hearing in compressed air, 357, 492 

 Heart beats, persistence of, in carbon di- 

 oxide poisoning, 920 

 Heiberg, Dr., symptoms of caisson-workers, 



1011-1013 

 Hematosis in compressed air, 458 

 Hemorrhages, causes of, 281-282 

 in compressed air, 356 

 from decompression, 370-373, 387. 398 



theories about, 457, 464, 482, 484 

 in mountain sickness, 331 

 Henderson, observations in Himalayas, 157- 

 159 



symptoms from poisonous artemisia. 295 

 Hens, effect of high altitude on, 40 

 Hermel, Dr.,-- case of caisson disease. 379- 

 380 



explanation of symptoms, 460-462 

 de Herrera, 26 



Hervey, Mistress, adventures in Himalayas, 

 147-152 



poisonous plant as cause of mountain 

 sickness, 294 

 Hervier and Saint-Lager, carbon dioxide 



formation in compressed air, 446-447 

 Heusinger, effect of diminished pressure at 



high altitudes, 245 

 Hill, symptoms and cause -of mountain 



sickness, 233 

 Himalayas, ascents of, 129-160 



individual peaks of, 10 

 Hines, ascent of Mount Hood, Oregon, 69 

 Hiouen-Thsang, on Hindou-Kouch and 



Pamir, 129 

 Hobard, .ascension from Lynchburg, Va.. 



185 

 Hodgson, Capt., plant exhalations in 



mountain sickness, 223 

 Hoffmeister, in Thibet, 145 

 Hooker, Dalton, symptoms of mountain 



sickness, 146 

 Hoppe, Felix, experiments on death in 

 rarefied air, 247 



ascribes death to free blood gases, 248 

 theory applied to sudden decompression. 

 455-456 

 Horses, effect of high altitude on. 32, 36. 

 40, 43, 46, 47, 52, 60, 132, 134, 144. 153. 154. 

 156, 159, 173, 234, 272-273, 322 

 Houel, ascent of Etna. 70 

 Hue, Pare, passage of Bourhan-Bota, 144 

 symptoms of mountain sickness ascribed 

 to carbon dioxide. 238 

 Hudson, precautions against mountain 



sickness, 283 

 Hugi, ascent of Finsteraarhorn, 94 

 Human beings, experiments on. 



Himself, 669, 697-699. 703-704. 706-707. 



760-763 

 Regnard, 763 

 Sivel and Croce-Spinelli. 700-703 



