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Show OXYGENJJDS WQRK Athletes Derive Benefit from This Source After Exercise. Dr. Anderson of Yale Gymnasium Gives Results of Experiments in Relieving Heart and Lung Distress Dis-tress in Physical Exertion. New Haven, Conn. The experiments experi-ments which have been carried on for a year by Dr. William G. Anderson, director of the Yale gymnasium, prove that there is a new field for the use of oxygen in relieving heart and lung distress in physical exertion, according accord-ing to the report Dr. Anderson has just made public. The report is divided into two parts. One relates to the extensive experiments experi-ments performed on Yale athletes. More than 600 were examined and the effects of oxygen on their hearts was studied. This report is now in the -hands of Prof. Russell H. Chittenden, director of the Sheffield scientific school, and will not be published in details for several weeks. Its conclusions are not so decisive as those from the experiments made on athletes in mountain climbing. The series is detailed in the story of the ascent of the three Mexican volcanic mountains Orizaba. 17.879 feet in height; Popocatapetl, 17,784 feet, and Ixtacchuitl, 17,476 feet. The Mexican guides who accompanied the party had never before been able to ascend the last-named peak. Eleven persons took part in the trip, which was made in the last Christmas vacation. Joel Ellis Fisher, Jr., of New York city, a Yale student, financed the undertaking. Cse was made of oxygen during the ascent and it signally relieved the distress, so that the climb was made with much greater ease than would have otherwise other-wise been possible. Two sets of experiments were made in -the use of oxygen during athletic contests. The contests were held first at the "Huts of Pallegallinas," about 12,000 feet above the surface of the sea, and then at the "Caves of Cholula," 13,400 feet above the sea. In the first contest it was not deemed advisable to try anything more strenuous stren-uous than the 100-yard dash, although the athletes upon whom the tests were made wore the heavy uniform of a traveler. As a result of the tests Dr. Anderson reports: 1 have no hesitation in saying that the dyspnoea caused by high altitudes is very materially alleviated by oxygen. oxy-gen. Oxygen reduces the pulse rate if taken before the run or if taken before be-fore and after the exertion. The gas greatly relieved the dyspnoea which was evident after each run. If oxygen oxy-gen is not taken, the heart rate is quickened, and does not return to normal nor-mal beat so quickly. His report on the second series, which consisted of walks, follows: Oxygen given before walking reduces re-duces the heart rate. Taken after-wrad, after-wrad, it also reduces the number of heart beats quickly. The walk, without with-out the use of oxygen, quickens the action of the heart noticeably. If the gas was not inhaled after this effort, the heart did not return to its normal beat so quickly. Dr. Anderson throws light on the use of chocolate as a food by his experiments. ex-periments. He used it in climbing one mountain, and found that it afforded af-forded decided nourishment. This report re-port upsets the claim of several students stu-dents of an athletic diet. General use of oxygen in the handling han-dling of athletes is expected to follow the publication of Dr. Anderson's report. re-port. The experiments are expected to revolutionize mountain climbing, and to make accessible many peaks-never peaks-never yet climbed. |