Eureka Reporter | 1903-02-20 | Page 7 | Peculiar Mountain Sickness

peculiar mountain sickness no doctor has ever yet accounted for the cause of mountain sickness a malady infinitely more lasting in its effects than sea sickness it Is only in comparatively very high altitudes that mountain sickness attacks the climber the premonitory symptoms are an uncontrollable attack of ner though the mountaineer may be in a place that Is absolutely rate rafe he fecio feel when attacked bv the sickness that his last hour has come As a rule he lies flat down and shouts for help then he gets violently sick and usually weeps during the mak ing of the railway to Jung frau several medical men made vairous expert ments to ascertain the actual cause of this mountain ness but with out much result I 1 ike ea sickness it seems to attack all sois sorts and condl tiona of people and th thee ne who do not suffer from it are curious enough often the most nervous london