The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1872-07-11
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The symptoms of sunstroke areat once uniform
and diverse-nniform in their general outline, and
diverse in their special details. In the ordinary
form-that which may be spoken Of Is the cere-
bro spinal yariety-after more or less distinct
warning, in the shape of such premonitory symp-
toms IS headache, disordered vision, intense wea-
riDess, etc., the subject becomes unconscious,
sometimes suddenly, sometimes more gradually.
hospital the comrades of . sick man will have
their attention attracted by his heavy breathing,
only TO find that natural sleep has passed BY in
sensible degrees into fatal coma or stupOr. With
this insensibility there is always associated in
tense heat Of the skin. To the hand the surface
feels intensely hot nor is the sensation decep-
tive one-the heat Of the body exceeds that at
tanned in almost any other affection. Afternoon
eter placed in the armpit, instead of indicating
W degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature OF health,
to liz degrees. From the peculiar pungency of
this heat the technical term calor moraaz, or BIZ
ting heat, has been applied to it.
The surface may or may not be pale; very often
it is dnsky, with lyid, BLUSH purple hue The
eyes are sometimes dull, with the leaden hue of
approaching death. The pupils at first are gem
orally contracted in the later stages they are Of
ten widely dilated. With these symptoms Of in
tense fever are Others betOkening nervous dis
turbance. In some cases these are of the nature
Of paralysis, the patient lying apparently in the
deepest sleep, not muscle moving, not limb
raised, not an eyelid qnivering. In other cases
this peaceful, though deadly calm, is replaced by
wild tempest-raging delirium, wild screams,
sion, furious commissions, following one another
like the rapid discharges Of o galvanic battery,
throwing the body in all directions, twistingit in
to every conceivable shape, the couDtenance
mocking the derisive laughing Of the maniac. or
knotted into an expression of agony. In another
and perhaps more common class of cases the I'M
conscious patient is simply restless, muttering
incOhe-"nt words, tossing about on the bed, show
ing perhaps, also signs Of local paralysis. There
appears to dc o curiOus connection between the
variety of races. Inc Anglo Saxon rarely be-
comes wildly delirious while this Is the most
common symptom among the Latin nations.
Frenchmen thus attacked often become melan-
cholic; and often develop an irresistible tendency
to snicide SO that soldiers on the march will sud-
denly shoot themselves.
Whatever be the form of attack, generally as
the minutes pass the symptoms are intensified;
the quick pulse of the first onset becomes more
and more feeble, the labored breathing noisy and
stentOriOus, the surface darker respiration fails,
and death at last is brought about by asphyxia,
or sometimes by the almost consentaneOus fading
away of respiration and circulation.
The one great symptom-the centre of the
group in all forms of the diseases the high tenn
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