Research Catalog

Title

Rocky mountain health resorts. An analytical study of high altitudes in relation to the arrest of chronic pulmonary disease. By Charles Denison ...

Author

Denison, Charles, 1845-1909

Publication

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1881, c1880.

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Description

xvi. 192 p. fold map; 21 cm.

Subject

• Altitude
• Altitude, Influence of
• Health Resorts
• Health resorts > Rocky Mountains
• Lung Diseases > therapy
• Rocky Mountains
• Southwestern United States
• Tuberculosis
• United States

Note

• "Table of general references": p. [177]-178.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Climates of low elevations -- ch. 2. Medium altitudes -- ch. 3. High altitudes -- ch. 4. Climactic map of the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains -- ch. 5. Mineral springs and other health stations -- ch. 6. Analysis of the attributes of high altitude climates -- ch. 7. Humidity -- ch. 8. Diathermancy of the air -- ch. 9. Atmospheric electricity. Ozone and winds -- ch. 10. Altitude -- ch. 11. Altitude of approximate immunity from tuberculosis -- ch. 12. Asthma, etc. -- ch. 13. The Results of the climactic treatment of consumption in Colorado -- ch. 14. Pulmonary hemorrhage -- ch. 15. Complications and conclusions -- ch. 16. Precautionary measures -- ch. 17. Camping out.

LCCN

rc^10000014^

OCLC

1609259

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library