Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-11-28

eral iniuHtes % III thlS connection may ]
be mentioned the fact that often in cases I
of9disease when there is high fever, the
skin being very hot, cold water is freely
applied, sometimes even dashed on, not
only with safety, but with decided relief
to the sensations and benefit of the case
And Captain Scorsby says that in the At
lantic regions he has often gone from the
breakfast room, where the temperature
was SO :. or 500 to the mast. head where
it was only l09 with no addition to his
clothing but cap, and yet, "never re-
ceived any injury, and seldom much In
convenience, from the uncommon trans
ltion." 50 n.'l|iE 1 '17r's-tf
Yet we know that cold sometimes ap-
piled to system that has been subject to
high temperature produces disastrous
results. Laborers who have been work
ing long time in the heat have some
times even lost their lives on drinking
freely of cold water. Life was once lost
on large scale from this cause. The
army of Alexander the Great on c,ming
to the River Oxus, after march across
scorchong, desert, experienced a greater
loss than in any one of their battles. -.
We can find an explanation of the ap
parent contradiction of the facts that we
have given in the principles Of the pro
duction and maintalnauce of animal heat.
There is a continual generation Of heat in
the body by certain processes which we
will not stop now to notice. aud under
all circumstances of external temperature
it is ma intained quite uniformly at about
go 1t is essential to comfort that the
body give off heat TO the air around it,
and that, too, to a considerable amount
For observe, that when the body is at rest
temperature of 60 is the most comfort
able to us-that is, the heat generated in
the system is with this temperature Of the
air given off to sufficient degHo to secure
4 comfortable sensation Of heat. That
I the body parts with great deal of hea'
= in this case is obvious from the difference
between the airs temperature and the reg
i. ular animal heat. amounting to 33o WI
q know how uncomfortable we are wher
n the thermometer stands at9S Q : Her,
!. the air and the body being at the sam'
d point tthere can be no heat taken from tn,
&c body by the air. But there is constan
!. generation Of heat in the system How
II thene is it prevented from being put int
N a high fever by a use of the animal hea
!. far above 98o +? Simply by the free pres
a piration that occurs, this absor bing. o
!. rendering latent GAS it is expressed) ~
D. great amount Of heat in changing fror
Z water into vapor. 1t was this proces
10 that was the safeguard of Sir Charlie
!, Blagde and his friends when they wer
\ in an atmosphere hotter than boiling wa
! ter. On the other hand. if the tempers
!, tue Of the air be lower than 659 eitht
clothng must be sufficiently applied 4
j prevent the heat from passing off to muc
(. or exercise must excite greater produ
tion of animal heat. or the two expedien
,s- may be united. And observe here th
re, the readiness with which heat is produce
rse and therefore the depressing impressic
ON of cold resisted, must depend much on Il
ed vigor of the system. .He gtvg 40 A.
to tis this last point that furnishes t
he key to the explanation of the evil resul
a of the sudden impression of cold.
at there be vigor-thc power to b react
ed, impression will do no harm. In all cas-
ok where harm is done there is one cat
tly which is not usually taken ainto the I
be count, and yetit is the grand cause of t
me result 1t is the exhaustion of the vi
off powers by prolonged exertion,, The
oek borer who dies from drinking cold wa
pom has not merely been heated, but has lbt
the worn down by laboring hour after h'
nth under the oppression and suffering Of
in heat, and he is in such condition 4
am cold water, either poured into the ste
and ach or dashed upon the skin, must 7
wen ducc only depressing effect !; and II, it Il
With be one to which the exhausted pow
den will secumb. The army Of Alexau
ex. we're exhausted by a continuous marci
p to 46 miles oyer the scorching ga sands sk' {
ome desert when it came to the River. O'
50s If tho soldiers had had . march Of but