The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-11
(Chicago Tribune.)

} GChfcaEo Trihune.)
The human race supposedly came
from the plateaus and mountain tops.
from the, roof of the world. the Himal-
ayas. The human race was then
strong and free from all disease. Will
mankind. weakened and physically de-
generate. have to return to the u
tain tops in order to regain strength
and life"
Human blood at the top of Pixies
Peak contains So per cen, more red
r"rpuscles than it does at the sea
level. Human blood on Fixes Peak
contains 50 per cent more white
corpuscles.
Human blood on the mountain tops
has a so per cent greater resistance to
the forces of disease.
These statements have been verified
and their truth established beyond all
question. scientific or otherwise. by
top of the Colorado mountains. $4,000
feet above sea level.
Therefore, the mountain plateaus
await such of the weaklings and the
diseased who are able to reach those
fields of r~eiuvenation. For the city
poor and the city slaves of business.
will not artificial heights be construct
edo
If the human blood is enriched and
purified within a few days by the mere
fact If elevation. why will it not he
pitfalls in the air? The science Of fly
ing is making such progress there
seems little question that within
few years the mechanical difficulties Of
such a project will have been remov-
ed.
1t will he possible to construct
aerial sanitariums that will float above
the cities. These may be in the III
Of captive balloons. or they may be a
development of the heavier than air
machines. They may perhaps he an
chored or they may float unattached.
In the latter case they probably would
F.! sail away from the zenith of the city
in order to avoid the smoke impurities
in the air. Access for patients might
he through passenger a%eroplanes.
With such an arrangement the man
who is both sick'and busy might pro-
long his life n perhaps secure new
health without loss of business time.
At the conclusion of his business day.
in place of taking the IL" he woul
take the elevator. He would go up a
few thousand feet for his hours of
recreation and Of sleep. to return
again in the morning for business. His
the aerial sanitarium. His lungs.
forced TO fight for the scant oxygen of
the upper air. would develop strength
and throw off their Affections. Tuber-
culosis. pneumonia and all the diseases
Of Impoverished blood would be
checked and perhaps cured.
The skEscrapers. in effect. are at the
present time giving business men and
women something of the advantages
of an aerial sanitarium or a trip to
the mountains.
The present Investigations on Pixies
Peak have furnished a more satisfac-
tory explanation than was formerly
! extant as to the reason why the blood
is improved by residence in noun
famous places and why tubercular pa
tients SO frequently improve in health.
The change is due TO the fact that the
lungs are forced to work. The lungs,
so 1t is now commended have the power
to secrete oxygen. They withdraw the
! oxygen from the air n add it to the
blood. But this is done only when
the lungs are forced to act. At sea
is larger and the air pressure heavier.
AS a result the lungs do not have to
s~ecrete. The oxygen is forced almost
mechanically into the bloOd. The
lungs, through lack of exercise. be-
come weak. just as the muscles would.
Taken to a high altitude. the patient
is likely to suffer from mountain sick
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lost their facility in oxygen secretion
and the patient is suffering from par
tial oxygen starvation. An instant re-
lief can be secured by the use of an
oxygen tank. After the patient has
been in the mountains for a few days
or weeks his lungs rapidly develop
their power to secrete the oxygen and
the blood is Don supplied with it's nor
NAL amount AS time goes on the
lungs becom more and more vigorous
and the amount of oxygen pressed into
the blood by them is larger than ever
before. The patient !. soon running
up precipices and taking twenty-mile
walks before breakfast.
The scientists now at work on these
problems on Pixies Peak. two and one
half miles above sea level. are DIR. ].
s. Haldane. F. r. S., an authority on
respiration; DR.. c. Gordon Douglas, a
blood expert, boil of Oxford univer-
sity. and DIR. Yandell Henderson Of
Yale university, credited with furnish
surgical shock. and DIR. f. c. Schneid-
er Of Colorado college. Colorado
Springs. author Of a work on blood
pressure. Miss Mabel p. Fitzpatrick.
an Oxford woman, is gathering data at
lower attitudes. The Investigations
are being carried on at the instance of
the Royal Society of London, an or
scientific research.
The increase Of haemoglObin( red
coloring matter. or red ~corpuscles) in
the blood at high attitudes is not caus-
ed by a concentration of the blood. but
by a scarcity Of oxygen, which stimu-
lates the bon marrow to unusual ac-
tivity. The volume of the blood re-
mains the same. but the blood in
~creases in richness.
THE primary object Of these ex-
%periments.' says DR.. Henderson. ''is