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.
This blog is for the sole purpose of listing the books, journals and archive in Dr. Thomas G. Mathews' (my late father's) vast library for specialists on Caribbean and Latin American History. FACT EX-ANTE: No book will be taken from its location. Those desiring of consultation will email me to make the appropriate arrangements.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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.
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