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[[Chronic mountain sickness]] (CMS) is also known as Monge's disease, after its first description in 1925 by [[Carlos Monge]]<ref name="pmid1011412">{{cite journal| author=Monge CC, Whittembury J| title=Chronic mountain sickness. | journal=Johns Hopkins Med J | year= 1976 | volume= 139 SUPPL | issue= | pages= 87-9 | pmid=1011412 | doi= | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=1011412 }} </ref> | [[Chronic mountain sickness]] (CMS) is also known as Monge's disease, after its first description in 1925 by [[Carlos Monge]].<ref name="pmid1011412">{{cite journal| author=Monge CC, Whittembury J| title=Chronic mountain sickness. | journal=Johns Hopkins Med J | year= 1976 | volume= 139 SUPPL | issue= | pages= 87-9 | pmid=1011412 | doi= | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=1011412 }} </ref> HAFE or High Altitude Flatus Expulsion was first described by Joseph Hamel in c. 1820. It was rediscovered in 1981 by Paul Auerbach and York Miller<ref name="pmid18748805">{{cite journal| author=Auerbach P, Miller YE| title=High Altitude Flatus Expulsion (HAFE). | journal=West J Med | year= 1981 | volume= 134 | issue= 2 | pages= 173-4 | pmid=18748805 | doi= | pmc=PMC1272559 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=18748805 }} </ref>. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Overview
Chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is also known as Monge's disease, after its first description in 1925 by Carlos Monge.[1] HAFE or High Altitude Flatus Expulsion was first described by Joseph Hamel in c. 1820. It was rediscovered in 1981 by Paul Auerbach and York Miller[2].
References
- ↑ Monge CC, Whittembury J (1976). "Chronic mountain sickness". Johns Hopkins Med J. 139 SUPPL: 87–9. PMID 1011412.
- ↑ Auerbach P, Miller YE (1981). "High Altitude Flatus Expulsion (HAFE)". West J Med. 134 (2): 173–4. PMC 1272559. PMID 18748805.