“The computer was not working so, exasperated, he shook the mouse harder. She squealed but still refused to add up his numbers.”
The book is by a U.S. publisher and lists a “Philippines copyright” date after the American one.
The hero bleeds himself as a cure for high altitude sickness, or something else.
They refer to apes as “Quadrumana”
Outer Space is called “the ether”
Someone gets the vapours.
And clutchs their pearls while fanning themselves.
Consumtion is killing the protagonist, so (s)he goes to a sanatorium high up in the Swiss Alps where nothing ever happens.