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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Notes on physiology in aviation medicine 
    Publication: Washington : War Department, October 21, 1940
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/35721080R
    ... pressures 73 Capillary pressures 74 Venous pressures 75 Altitude (mountain) sickness 76 Summary 77 Residence at high altitudes 78 ... give a maximum effi- ciency of heartbeat. 76. Altitude (mountain) sickness.—Since mankind varies greatly in the power of ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Medical Pioneers 
    https://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101662437X869
    ... Kolff, Willem J). Vol. 21(1): 112-3 ALTITUDE SICKNESS Coronary Heart Disease at Altitude (Alexander, James K). Vol. 21(4):261-6 ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - A list of papers and minutes of the Flying Personnel Research Committee Office of the ... 
    https://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101085500X222
    ... C.A.F.Medical Branch,London,Ontario.Chronic altitude sickness: The effects of low barometric pressure on personnel. ... R.A.F. Physiological Laboratory Selection for high altitude flying Oxygen equipment Blacking=out Liaison Aviation ... {g?fg 4 ps ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Industrial health 
    Publication: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Son & Co., [1924]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/30121030R
    ... proof that the abnormal symptoms and dangers of altitude sickness depend on the imperfect aeration of the arterial ... accuracy of vision, mitigate the fatigue of high altitude flights, and increase ... Sickness.-The effects of diminished atmospheric pressure and physical ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - [Lectures 1-6] 
    Publication: [West Point, N.Y.] : [United States Military Academy, Department of Military Hygiene], 1948
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/14211570R
    ... own body fluid, (2) Stress of High Altitudes, "Altitude sickness" occurs at high altitudes because the lungs are not able to get ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - Military medicine 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1955
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/58730190R
    ... Mahady, S. C. F., & Masland, R. L. Studies on altitude decompression sickness; the effects of denitrogenation. J. Aviat. M., 1946, ... sub- headings) Centrifugal force, Biological effect; Kinetosis. SWING sickness. See also references of preceding heading. Hemingway, A. Incidence of swing ...
  7. pdfThe American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/digicolls/acca/harvey.pdf
    ... tuberculosis, namely emphysema, also do not tolerate higher altitudes. The last reference to the heart and circulation and altitude was by Joseph N. Hall, a Denver physician, ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Research in aviation medicine for the German Air Force 
    Publication: [London?] : Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, [1945]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101708949
    ... started to de- termine the basis of high altitude sickness. The result of a long series of experiments ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Army observers' report of Operation Highjump : Task Force 68, U.S. Navy 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : War Department, September 1947
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/14020180R
    ... adjust or repair them. Talks were given on altitude sickness and decompression sickness. (2) Subsequently, while en route ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Medical research and development miscellaneous 
    https://resource.nlm.nih.gov/2933155RX407
    ... the plains to tho‘ ; , E ‘would counteract high altitude sickness. It was immediately 22 ‘hizh nmhsus potassium ‘_uxts ...
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