Attitudes on altitude : pioneers of medical research in Colorado's high mountains / edited by John T. Reeves and Robert F. Grover.

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2001], ©2001.

xvii, 214 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-206) and index.

Failing hearts at high altitude: "brisket disease" in cattle teaches humans a medical lesson / Robert F. Grover -- A high point in human breathing: John Scott Haldane of Oxford on Pikes Peak / Piers C. Nye & John T. Reeves -- Major breathing in miners: Mabel Purefoy Fitzgerald, an intrepid scientist, visits Colorado's high mines / Robert W, Torrance & John T. Reeves -- An affair of the heart: the Grollmans and cardiac output on Pikes Peak / Arthur P. Grollman & John T. Reeves -- High cycling: Bruce Dill exercises Harvard men at the Leadville fish hatchery / John T. Reeves, David Bruce Dill, Jr., & Robert F. Grover -- Small babies among big mountains: John Lichty solves a Colorado mystery in Leadville / Lorna Grindlay Moore -- Wet lungs at high altitude: an Andean problem is found in the Colorado Rockies / Robert F. Grover.