Influence de la pression de l'air sur la vie de l'homme : climats d'altitude et climats de montagne / par D. Jourdanet.

Paris : G. Masson, 1875.

2 volumes : illustrations, plates

Desc: With a half title Note: Jourdanet, who had practised medicine in Mexico, provided the funding for French physiologist Paul Bert to conduct laboratory research while he himself travelled and made observations on climatisation. In the above work he summarized the observational and experimental work he had done at different altitudes in remote parts of Asia and Latin America. The two volumes are so profusely illustrated with maps, portraits and scenic views, that they appear more like a travel book than a work of scientific research. Included is a depiction of Humboldt's collapse from acute mountain sickness during his historic attempt to climb Mount Chimborazo. Jourdanet compared the symptoms of altitude sickness to those of anaemia and suggested that both might be due to a lack of oxygen in the blood. For this condition he coined the term "anoxemia"

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