The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-14
MOUNTAIN SICKNESS.

Every Alpine climber is familiar with
 the mysterious malady known as noun
 tain sickness, which has the power of
 suddenly transforming a robust moun-
 taineer into helpless invalid. About
 dozen years ago when the two we'll
 known observatories were built on Mont
 Blanc by Dr. Janssen and M. Vallot,
 many of the men who were taken up to
 act as porters and builders were com
 pletely incapacitated at first, and some
 of them were obliged to return to Cha
 monix without having accomplished a single stroke of work.
 Nal de montague, as the French call
 ity resembles the more familiar fal de
 mer in it's general symptoms, in its
 prostrating effect, and also in the fact that only one satisfactory remedy has
 eyer been found for either of them
 arueIy. the studious avoidance alike of the croppy sea and the lofty mountain | top. Another point of resemblance IS that maj de montague attacks some | neopla much more violently than oth- CTS; and while some manage to get over lit very, quickly, there are a, certain number of people who are never tree from it's weakening influence when once a certain altitude is reached. It IS | generally attributed simply to the rarl- I tx of the atmosphere, which lowers the vitality, and while throwing the action cf the heart and lungs out of its nor ma | condition, completely upsets the dl- gestiye organs, This is the view or the ; well known Alpine authority, pr zslg- 4 mondi. who in his work upon mountain
 dangers has correctly enough inciudeo \ mountain sickness. as one of the mos' l serious foes that mountaineer mas to to I encounter Many remedies have peer f suggested for this trying and irlconven' fl ient malady. which saps a mans
 strength and enfeebles his limbs pre- cisely at the moment when he stands .f most in need of all the vigor and energy
 of which he. is capable, but, unfortu ; .j pately. most of these remedies nav 5I proved entirely intellectual.
 Recently, however cure has neei # discovered by a Russian topograpne , named Passtoukhof, which he claims | ;I he an absolute specific for mountall sickness For some years past M. Pass
 tn1Ilyhof has been making ascents ill tn Il Caucasus, where he has climbed tn .l Grand Ararat, Mount Kasbek, an .l Mo11nt ElbruZ. the latter being tn Fl highest point in the Caucasus range and overlapping the height of Noun - Blanc by more than two thousand Tee At such an altitude as this it IS easy : understand that the question or nlour ] fain sickness becomes a serious one, an I I m more than ooe occasion M. ass lt to,,l<hoe has found not only himself, pt
 All the other members of his expedltlo ' | completely prostrated by 1t. on one i fbese occasions it occurred to hlm ! \, fry the experiment of lighting his spll U it Ian1p and making some tea, which I \ f administered to himself and his con i lpanions in an almost boiling condltlol $ l with a result that far exceeded hls es ] nectations. Almost immediately 1T 4 mora serious symptoms disappeare' a and in short time all the members a Inc expedition found themselves we t, I enough to continue the ascent Lat ' m M. Passtoukhof repeated this expe x Eirnent of, exhibiting boiling tea as
 Q I remedy for mountain sickness, with r < suits so invariably successful that - now feels justified in considering that that fl may really be regarded as speciflc' - If would, however, be interesting l. ascertain whether it is really u r. stheine" or the boiling water that pr e duces this remarkable cure, as the ia IS of it's being served hot as possible seen J. to be looked upon as an essential poir 1T Perhaps some members of the Alpil .- club will make some further exper Is ments with this supposed tea cur IT which is at present quite unknown
 l. the ordinary Alpine guide-Chanlon ai. Correspondence of the London Times.