Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-31
We write in cool room with q due

We write in cool room with a dna
northern exposure. No direct ravs
OF the sun ever PASS our windows
cut the afternoon reflection frorn
me giaring white Ct the First Ma.
tleaai bank, Iast opposite, gives us
fequeut melting, and wo can
ooass Of of a Top lofty thermometer
in the shade.
IL 10 no new thing that many (st
o.Louls perhaps one.halD OF the
deaths occurred in the shade. f,-
shade does not necessarily imnlv
either coolness or dryness Of tina -.
mosphere. But there is one silgu.
lar feature in the earl9 nnnrs at
winch the deaths occurred. II uai,v
,ney happen in the sfternoor, part
y becaase that is the hottest part
OF ne day and partly because The
sahleet of attack has been laboring
Tor many hours. But in this ius
s'atee the deaths gan early in
The morning, and hat motoinp
following Sunday when the people
bad kept indoors and cultivated
comfort and when the only ,hipg
possif.e on Monday morning was
that of a long snhjection to exhaust
ing heat. When they got up in
the morning they wero utterly ex-
sausted by shs vapor bath Of their
bedrooms and iii is mentioned that
during Sunday there were many
eases OF almost fatel prostration
from synoope or ordinary fainting.
Probably moss of the instan:
deaths are attributable to syncope
oecasioned hy avhansiss.-, &c. X
heat and humidity of The air. The
exposure has been somewhat pro-
ionged, and when the blow falls it
gives no time for The eongestive
symptoms. the coma aud uBcan-
seriousness that attend the su den
rToke of the direct rays of the sun.
greater number of cases may
=, :. racterized as deadly swoon,
,ha : ,tely silencing the action of
fsrsn, g. a pathology entirely diff
Sas;1s that of the boy in
smapa,s. 20 went into tho field
and said to his sa,her allv head !,
my hesd !" for b. was carried .nmo
and sat upon bis n.. ner's tnaa mn.
I'll noon before he disa "a :, 49,
some hours after tha. before the
Prophet Elisha arrived ras,nro
him o lifo. Tho interveni 49,
ment was not bad for tho be. haa
been carried up stairs and IL. IN
qniat on the Prophets bed. Ba;n
ST. Louis as in New York, m 1885,
the direc. rays of the sun were not
a necessary element in the eausa-
ton OF the disease.
rs to treatment we believe that
medical men are now pretty well
agreed ;hat there is an extreme
prostraiion of the vital powers, and
primarily a congestion OF the nerve
centres that control the action of
the heart and lungs. The blood runs
riot into fermentation, the chemi-
cal processes usurp the work Of the
vital forces and as tho blood DO.
comes more disintegrated and bro-
ken down, the gestion, in Tho
slower cases, spreads everywhere TO
the BRAIN and lungs, the heat Of the
body becomes intense aud decom,
position has already begun before
death arrives, so that the body can
not be kept for any length of time.
In such vital depression, depls.
lion is not philosophical or praeli-
cal remedy, and authorities recoml
mend that the head should BIO iced
and the spine counter.irritated with
mas lard plasters This, with slim
nlant4 given by the mouth and
iSt,mpal AZ 4Bss, n jS ea.,a makes per-
wneh De Uuuies nc nnvatu Oa
Judge 10 each individual case how
far the symptoms have gone, how
closely thsy are confined TO mere
syneope or how far the tavages Of
congestion may have extended, and
so adapt his treatment not to "wbat
is good fer sunstroke," but to the
,ndi,ion of the system which tho
sunstroke has left behind il. As TO
prevention there is only one rule
Avoid fatigue and keep tho body at
lis natural temperature OF 90. Any
higher heat than that. absorbed
from the atmosphere or otherwise
obtained, is substitution of thu
laws of chemistry for those Of vital
force aud conservation. Record.