Acclimatization in the Andes

Monge, Carlos, Acclimatization in the Andes: Historical confirmations of "climatic aggression" in the development of Andean man,Translated by Donald F. Brown. With a foreword by Isaiah Bowman; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press,, 1948.. 8vo; xix, 130 pp. Second edition.

It is the author's thesis that life at high altitudes deserves a new biology concerned with beings adapted to reduced atmospheric oxygen tension. This field of biology illustrates the principle that the reactions of living organisms are related to the duration as well as to the intensity of imposed stresses. There is every extreme in response ranging from the vomiting newcomer to the hard-working, healthy resident.