OCR Text |
Show 1 Reel of Allllmle tit lllm-l Tha effect ot nltltude on tho blood lias been studied In New Mexico with Interesting and perhaps valuable re suits, I)r Maltby undertook tho work nt tho suggestion of tha director of tha biological laboratory of tho University Uni-versity of New Mexico, and the study Interrupted for a tlmo by tho deatti of Dr. Maltby, has been continued by l'rof Wclntel. It was round a cor respondent of tho Denver Itrpubllcai reports, that tho blood rorpusiles are greatly Increased when a person from a low altitude reaches a higher one hu this effect, with the powerful stimulus Involved, Is only transitory. Observations Observa-tions showed that whllo person who hao long resided In New Mexico hare no mora corpuscles than others lu lower regions, these same persons may rcnow or repeat tho original effect of nltltudo hy n sort residence nt tin sea lavel or elsewhere. What amounts to tho same thing 1 tho fait that on by residing nt .00O or B.000 feet may socuro all tho powerful stimulating of feet ot tha nltltudo on tho blond by periodical visit to the altitude of Santa San-ta To or Magdalena, 2,000 feet higher In these case the effect Is greatly Increased In-creased by out-of-door llfi and exir-clse, exir-clse, becauso thero Is an Intltnnto re latlon between tho activity of the lungs and this blood stimulation It was alm found that rabbit kept In conflnmi. ut would show tho sirno Imroiao on be Ing carried from Albunuorquo to Camp Wultcorau. It I thought that the re suit, of tho Inquiry may hate an Im portant bearing on the trcalmrnt ot consumption. Now York Tost. |