The National tribune., 1889-07-18
EugsrRoKE.

and the popular remedy is both simple aud eli.
Client. thick linen bandage is wrapped
around the head and kept saturated with cold
water, p0F saoodr Il fueJop as they call it," TO
draw out the FIRE" Every two minutes or so,
the water is renewed till the patient has re.
covered sufficiently to sit up and continue
cooling his temples with q wet sponge. |
have never known that method to involve
any injurious after-eficcts and believe that
It's employment would often break the
incipient symptoms OF climatic fevers, though
the popular prejudice against cold, in
all its forms, may recommend less rational
specifies, bleeding for instance, which 1T
best exchanges a momentary stupor for
week-long langnor, aud liability 10 reapses.
But IL seems less easy 10 account for the hope
less 0bstinacy Of the prejudice against fresh
water "a beverage for healthy persons under
the influence OF excessive heat A soldier
reaching his noon day camp In a shady grove,
a wayiarer hating at a public well boy re-
turning from butterfly chase. are sure 10 be
warned against the disastrous effects OF cold
water drunk in tho heat" Wait Till you
cool off" " Take drink Of tea first" You'll
catch your death Of cold at that spring" etc.
| Yet even the popular air-dTead is not more
utterly gratuitous. We might Us we'll be
4 asked TO believe that wayworn traveller must
not risk to sit down without first resting few
minutes In q standing position. We might as
we'll warn drowsy child against shutting both
eyes at once, at the risk of falling asleep too ab.
ruptly. The truth is that drink of cold water
| is beathiest when the system Is most urgently
| Ia need of 10, and that at no other time the
stomach more readily forgives the abruptness OF
sudden repletion. Only drunkards and persons
whose digestive organs have been dcbilitated
| by long abuse risk tho least unpleasant conse-
quences from free indulgence I'm the most
natural Of all dilnents and refrigerants. But,
on the other hand, there is no doubt that pre-
danger Of surleiting the system with calorifc
food-that pork eaten in quantity after warm
days work often results IN n deliquium equal
Ing the worst symptoms Of cholera morbus.
Greasy ragouts become more indigestible in
Summer; quantnm of etpudding, which
at other times would only produce q slight
| heart burn, has IN sutry weather 10 be expi-
ated by III of distressing costiveness Tour
lists, on returning from dogday excursion or
farmers after sweltering harvest day, should
therefore coniine themselves TO moderate qnaD-
titles Of food, and, if possible, abstain, for n
meal or two, from all heat producing viands
Bodybuilding with cold milk aud sugar, or q
plateful of cold fruit and cakes will abundantly
satisfy the demands Of nature, which on such
days are never exorbitant The feeling oil
oppressive heat, in fact, diminishes all appe.
titles except the desire for refrigeration.
LOSS OF BLOOD.
| Inc hppelle LOT sofia 1000 IN also REMARKABLY
reduced by an exhaustive loss of blood, while
the craving for fluids Is, at the same time, in.
creased. On the day after the capture oi
0axaca they brought me Mestizo who had
been struck by piece Of shell and found stun.
ned and almost eEsaagtis the hemorrhage
having been stopped only by the coagulatior
OF blood Ia his matted hair. After bandaginp
the sore. which, after all. was only seal
wound, turned him over to my landlord with
| the request to send for dozen oranges and q
gallon of aieue, or crushed ice. Out of those
ingredients and lot of water and sugar my
host brewed paiiful Of sherbet and entering
the siek-r00m toward evening was surprised "a
find that his guest had put himself outside the
entire contents Of the pail. / succeeded in
undertaking his apprehensions, but half an hour
after he came back In state of still grcatel
amazement When he sent the children with
several platefuls Of tidbits from the supper