Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-12
ANOTHER HEATED TERM
The Hottest Weather of the Season
Predicted the Last of this Week.
Heat Pr0stratiOns and Precautions
Against Them,

The signal service predicts the most
extreme heat of the season on the l4th,
10Th and 10th of this month-neXt Sat-
nrday, Sunday and Monday. Although
we have already had some pretty severe
and oppressive weather already this
season, good fortune has attended us, in
that We have had no serious cases of heat
prostraliOns. With the return of the
heated season, however, fresh dangers
arise and there core something of an idea
of what heat or snnstrokcs and the
causes which lead to them, may he of in
terest and advantage. The opinions OF
the leading physicians in the country in
such cases are taken, Dr. Maggie, who
has been in charge of the bureau of sta.
tistics of the New York board of health
for many years, says:
Sunslroke comes from exposure to pro
tracted heat in dry air, ana is more quick
ly induced when combined with vitiated
air II Is sometimes called "thermic
fever Gou have heard of the term
blood heat, and when the warmth of the
body gets beyond this, proslration Is
produced In excessively warm periods
anything that heats the blood should be
avoided Many persons make the mis-
take of eating as heartily AT this time as
in cold weather. 1t Is advisable to keep
the surface of the body moist by perspir.
alton, for which purpose iudicious
amount of liquid should be taken Ere,
Guent bathing also tends to keep down
the temperature of the body Cases of
sunstroke are unusually early this wear
and hope II Is not sign that We are to
have'a repetition of the summer of 1870,
when there were 3l2 deaths from sun
stroke ia the three months of June, July
and August. On July of that year
there were siNty-eIght deaths from that
cause. Hot nights are largely responsi~
bic Tor deaths from heat pTostratiOn
They prevent the body from cooling of
after the heat of the day, and thus render
II more liable To attain the dangerous de
gree OF temperature. /; is particularly
:" in the case of old people AMI chill
dren.
Another surgeon who had a vas
amount of experience with some Of ire
most desperate and dangerous eases Of
sunstroke. says:
The subject Of sunstrOke is not thor
oughly understood. 1t is caused in most
eases by the direct rays of the sun, but
often persons are stricken down at night
Abnormal temperature of the body is
what causes the attack. Anything over
100 degrees Is dangerous We have had
Il numbcr of cases already tins season, of
which three proved fatal, one being an
Ice man who had the preventive within |
bis reach, as if he had kept piece OF ice
10 his hat it would have probably kept
his temperature down. The worst cases |
ale strong, healthy men, who think that |
they are tough enough To go through |
anything, and sluhburniy refuse to be |
warned by the pr0monitions which come |
in all cases before being stricken down |
Plethoric men and those who indulge in |
drinks are especially subject |
10 sunstTOkc ThOS- who feel eXhAus |
ton coming on should at once stop work |
and by bathing or other means cndeavor |
10 get the temperature Of their bodies |
BACK To normal condition.