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Index 



decreased, experiments, 787-788. 

 Boyle's suggestion of experiment, 203 

 increased, 797 

 Sensitivity, loss of, from decompression, 



372, 402, 406 

 "Sheep" (moutons), 377; explanation of. 



886 

 Sherwill, Capt, ascent of Mont Blanc, 91 

 Shifts, length of, in compressed air, 362, 



372, 377, 386, 388, 389, 394, 487, 493 

 Sievers, ascent in Armenia, 127 

 Silkworm cocoons, Bert's experiments on. 



684-685, 752, 776; Boyle's suggestion of 



experiment on, 203 

 Simonoff, Dr. Leonid, medical effects of 



compressed air, 1020 

 Simons, balloon ascension with the "Flying 



Man," 193 

 Sivel, balloon ascension in Polar Star, 961- 



962 



effects of rarefied air on, 673 



experience in decompression chamber, 

 700-703 



fatal ascension in Zenith, 963-969 



funeral eulogy of, 971-974 



in ascension organized by Society of 

 Aerial Navigation, 192-193 

 Sjogrun, ascent of Kasbek, 124 

 Smell, sense of, weakened in compressed 



air, 375, 492 

 Smith, Dr. Archibald, notes on mountain 



sickness in Peru, 44 



symptoms and causes of mountain sick- 

 ness, 233 

 Smyth, mountain sickness, 44 

 Snow, as cause of mountain sickness, 226, 



294, 338 



line of perpetual snow in relation to 

 mountain sickness, 318 

 Soldan, Mateo Paz, description of soroche. 



53 

 Spalding, improvements in diving-bell, 355 

 Spallanzani, ascent of Etna, 71 

 Speer, nature and causes of mountain 



sickness, 241 

 Spitaler, ascent of Venediger, 97 

 Stoliczka, Dr., fatal attack on Karakorum, 



974-976 

 Strobel, Pellegrino, free from effects of 



soroche, 55 

 Studer, Gottlieb, ascent of the Jungfrau, 



97 

 Steubel, ascent of Cotopaxi, 59 

 Sturmius, invention of diving-bell, 355 

 Submarines, early types of, 357-358 

 Symptoms, due to decompression, 540, 983 



cerebral disturbances, 363-366, 372-373, 

 377, 379, 381, 402, 406, 492; theories 

 about, 457, 465, 466 



circulation, 669-672 



digestion, 672-673 



lower pressure limit of appearance of. 

 685 



means of averting, 694-708 



nervous and muscular effects, 673-675 



nutrition, 675-685; body temperature, 

 683-684; development, 684-685; respira- 

 tory exchanges, 675-678; sugar in liver, 

 blood, and urine, 681; urinary excre- 

 tion, 678-681 



post mortem; rigor mortis, 688; shown 

 at autopsy, 687-688 



respiration, 666-669 

 Symptoms, of mountain sickness, 241-242 



circulation, 329-331 



digestion, 328 



innervation, 332-333 



locomotion and exertion, 331-332 



secretions, 329 

 Symptoms, of oxygen poisoning 



blood sugar, 749 



convulsions, 740-743 



diminution of oxidations, 743 



excretion of urea, 748-749 



pulmonary exchanges, 744-748 



Tabariti, Dr., therapeutic effects of com- 

 pressed air, 415 



Tardieu, physiological effects of rarefied 

 air, 270 



Taste, sense of, weakened in compressed 

 air, 375, 492 



Temple, Ed., soroche at Potosi, 36 



Teneriffe, Peak of, ascents of, 73-77 

 mountain sickness on, 196 



Testu-Brissy, balloon ascension with 

 horse, 173 



Therapeutics, use of diminished pressure 

 in, 220, 228, 1007 

 use of increased pressure in, 239, 1005 



Thomas, Prof. L., effect of ascent on body 

 temperature, 959 



Thomson, R. F., ascent of Demavend, 128 



Thomson, Taylor, ascent of Demavend, 123 



Thomson, Dr. Th., passes of Parang and 

 Karakorum, 145 



Thoracic capacity, see chest capacity 



Thorpe, buccal temperature in ascent, 957 



Time of appearance of symptoms due to 

 decompression, 361-364, 493, 1011 



Tissandier, Albert, ascent of Mont Blanc. 

 115 



Tissandier, Gaston, report of ascension of 

 Zenith with Sivel and Croce-Spinelli, 

 963-969 



Tissues, experiments on, 

 carbon dioxide accumulation in, 911-913 

 lethal concentration of carbon dioxide 



in, 914 

 putrefaction of, in high carbon dioxide 

 tension, 926-927 



Torrente, symptoms and cause of moun- 

 tain sickness, 33 



Torricelli, early experiments of, 197 

 invention of barometer, 196 



de la Touanne, discussion of mountain 

 sickness, 36 



Tournefort, ascent of Ararat, 126 



Training, effect of lack of, in mountain 

 sickness. 292, 293, 294, 324-325, 327 

 result of, in mountain climbing, 956, 996 



Triger, invention of industrial compressed 

 air apparatus, 358 

 memoir on caisson accidents, 384 

 physiological effects of compressed air, 

 359-360 



Trouessart, report on Triger apparatus, 359 



von Tschudi, J. J., explanation of weari- 

 ness of legs in ascent, 232 

 description of the Vela, 45 



Truqui, ascent of Popocatepetl, 63 



Tuckett, ascent of Grivola, 116 



Turner, Samuel, in Thibet, 130 



Tutschek, physiological effects of com- 

 pressed air, 417 . 

 theory of action of compressed air, 467 



Tyndall, first ascent of Mont Blanc, 106 

 second ascent, 107 

 importance of food in ascents, 293 



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Ulloa, discussion of cause of mountain 



sickness, 209 



symptoms caused by mountain air, 210 



symptoms of the Mareo, 28 

 Urbain, see Mathieu 

 Urea, production of, in compressed air 



(1 to 5 arm.), 748-749, 764-765 



in rarefied air, 983 



effect of diet on, 1025 



thesis of Pravaz on, 1015-1016 

 Urination, effect of decompression on, 373, 



380, 387, 389, 399, 401, 406 

 Urine, Bert's experiments on, 823-825 



carbon dioxide content of, 914 



secretion of, in compressed air, 364, 385, 



