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Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Negative Health Consequences of High Altitude

There are many different local and regional names for altitude sickness. Thomas Holmes Ravenhill published a paper in 1913 titled, quote, some experiences of mountain sickness in the Andes. His work was largely overlooked though until the 1960s when it was rediscovered by Charles Houston at New England Journal of Medicine.

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