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 A ooIa common." Similar reports, except &the. f
 i, orn, ome to us in the American Atny Mod-
 pf rom all the poets situated on these high elevatiobt
1MX to r7.000 feet). Neuralia and rheumatism are v~ry


a-


on in those altitudes, and nervoise diseaese are aggravated


Vt. Dubois,


of San Rafael,


Bays


(" Medical


Record


March,


the same of that region, although it is highly commended


other


affections.


Another


peculiarity


these


elevated


'I

C))
:I c*I^


- V


ions, of all very dry regions generally


iang: e of temperature.


Thus,


is the


Assistant Surgeon J


extraordinary


H. Patzki,


.writing from
daily range <


Fort


Fred.


Steele,


is frequently


Wyoming
observed,


Territory,


of 500


says "a


not rarely,


S'aad of 600


occasionally "


Aug.


1874


max.


860 min.


In these regions there is also a peculiar fever prevalent,


which is serious, and not infrequently fatal. jt is known all
Over the United States, in the mountains, even bt moderate ele-


tatiocs, and
S'.mountain


is called


fever."


by the


people


by the


medical men


It has usually been described as a typhoi


S ifever, but the medical officers of
: o fa that it is a remittent- abd of


Before dismissing the subject of the


which


, by the


on different


individuals


the army have betablishbed


malarious origin.


effect of high altitudes,


effects as


interest


to respiration,


those


send


their patients


to these


places


to know the effect elevation pro-


oed on a medical man and how he treated it.


Assistant Sur.


W.H. Gardner, U


stationed at


Fort


Union, New


eo, thus relates his own case:


Shortly after arriving at the poet, I was attacked with a fullness in the
4. ringing in the ears, mental hebetude, and confusion of ideas, dizzinem
i"lkdabp-e. Thinking these symptoms might be caused by constipation,
fl'ia, or torpidity of the liver, I took. a mercurial purgative, and fol.
StM by a dose of Roehelle salts, which relieved the fullness of oppreuion
 or.two, but it at once returned, the dizziness and confusion of idea .
 tnd a feeling of numbness and tingling commenced in the fingenodf
 bttd, and gradually spread until it involved the whole left side, eypa;
 of the tongue being involved in the paralysis, so that I could not'

 lof Dqver City, graphioafly deestibe the risk of sending
 ed, regionn. Territoril MIedical ooiety, 1878). i
 7 i&gutidnP. ore, and- '"if hig diseaut a nt
 umntbto Ootordb6;. Without it l ii be
 tflTfrhr is i.ke. w ild ,..f .yA


IVnrdiffit;
j.A


if pa


have very different


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1


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f etc.