Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
Extraordinary Power ofResistine Heat.

The power of superior animals, and especially
OF man, to resist high degrees Of temperature, is
by accident in the following Inanner:- Wv"
II V we'll known that the natural Temperature
In this country i not far from degrees Fahren
St. Tho%as Hospital, London, Wsns Into aroo@
heated to l20 degrees, where he remained TWEEN
g 80 ana s9o
while the Thermometer In his hand rose only to
!. sir Joseph Banks, DR.. solander, and Sir Chas.
Blagden, remained several minutes in a room
the above gentlemen s' REMAINED eixhs minntes
In room heated to 220 degrees. We have &C.
counts Of young female at Rochestoncuit, who
minutes at o time in an oven heated to l76 de-
Rrees; and Tillet and Dubamel inform us that
they bore q heat of go degrees for nearly five
:Chantry. the sculptor often entered his fur sso
maze wnen d he ate 0r drying his o1,a 70 ; S
tmpunity when the Thermometer was up to $40
ct lO degrees in 80 minutes the heat was 2S6.-
On being taken out. the bottom Of the basket
ks 81 fns aed n
utes eggs were roasted hard.
Most Of our readers have probably heard Of
Monsieur Chaubert, the fire king" and who
as is stated by DR.. Dunglison, entered an oven
when the heat was raised above 400 degrees.
the same power to generate caforic. We have
seen that It's natural temperature is about 96 de-
grees but In the account Of Captain Parry's
voyage to the Arctic seas. we are told that his
crew were frequently exposed to a temperature
Of 500 degrees below zero and $50 degrees below
In the year l76O, ut Rochefonoauit, Mons. Du-
hamel and Tillet, having occasion to use large
had been baked in it, wished to ascertain with
precision Its degree OF temperature. Being ut
loss how to proceed, girl, one Of the attendants
pencil the hight at which the thermometer
stood within the oven. The girl smiled at Mr..
nc the oven marked the thermometer as stand
ing at 200 degrees OF Fahrenheit's scale.
The female salamander assuring Mr.. Tnlit,
convenience from her situation, she remained
ten minutes longer, the thermometer then
standing at SIS degrees, or 70 degrees above boil
was considerably heightened, but her respiration
by no means quick or laborious. This was after
experiments by Sir Charles Blagden DIR. For
dyce, and Others. DR.. Blagden entered a room,
heated ~ nues IN the SSr when the taermo
ter.
The nrst impression Iof this heated air upon
his body was exceedingly disagreeable, but in n
few minutes all uneasiness was removed by the
breaking out Of a sweat. At the end of ten min
Se ha
risen go degrees. In other experiments 1t was
found that o heat even of 26O degrees could be
peratures every piece of metal about the bodies
ofthe experimenters became intolerably hot;
small quantities of water placed in metallic
vessels Immediately boiled eggs placed upon
frame were roasted hard in twenty minutes,
and beefsteak was overdone in thirty-three
minutes. Notwithstanding the great degree Of
heat to which the experimenters were exposed,
the temperature of their bodies was not raised.
Animals are also capable Of living in tempera
ture Of extraordinary elevation, even in the
dense medium of water.
In the thermal springs of Bohemia, in Brazil,
small fishes were seen swimming in q rivulet
that raises the thermometer to 50 degrees, and
dsh have been found existing in q hot spring at
the Manillas at l5S degrees. The power OF re-
sisttng temperature belongs almost In an equal
degree to the vegetable world.