The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-08

terestiny to note that IN the south.
where tho heat is greatest, there are
I fewer fatal cases of sunstro1e than
there are in the north. The reason for
At is obvious. In the south the people
are accustomed to great heat; IN the
north they are subject to sudden and
very great changes OF temperature, so
that they become accustomed to moth
ing. As matter Of fact sunstroke
does not necessarily proceed from ex-
posure to very great heat Other con-
ditions arc as important as tempera-
ture. A man may be sunstruck be-
cause, on a hot day. his stomach Is out
of order. A man may be Sunstruck be-
cause he Is worried about his business
or his family or his pet horse. A man
may be sunstruck because he has been
insufficiently fed, has not had enough
sleep, Or-and this frequently occurs
because he has been drinking too much
LIQUOR. 1t is safe to say, in fact. that
liquor plays its part in at Least two
thirds of the cases of serious heat pros
tration. The handicap under which it
places man Is shown very clearly by
an instance which recently occurred in
New York.
James McKenna was very strong
man, full of vitality. lie did not drink.
On recent very hot day, however, he
indiscreetly exposed himself to the
merciless sun. He went down under
1t. He was taken TO Bellevue hospital.
The first thing the physicians did there
was to attempt to take his tempera-
ture. They thrust thermometers under
his tongue in the usual manner, ex-
pecting to get temperature of lO3
degrees, the average sunstroke tenn
perature. Instead OF that, the mercury
rushed up in the tube until 1t could go
no further. This was entirely unprece-
denied in the history Of the hospital
The regulation physicians thermom-
eter registers 110.4 degrees. No one
knows exactly how high McKenna's
temperature was. The doctors can
make q shrewd guess that II reached
the neighborhood of ia degrees, but il
IS only shrewd guess Here comes in
the liquor, or, rather. the lack Of il.
All the physicians at the hospital agree
that if McKenna had been even a mod
crate drinker there would have been
no need OF taking him 70 the hospital
at all. Time and trouble could have
been saved by carting him direct 10
the morgue. But he was not drink
ing man, and he was taken 10 the hos
pital, and the chances are at least even
that he will live. Il is not likely that
he VIII ever entirely recover from the
effects Of the sunstroke-it Is even pos
sible that he viii be hOpelessly insane
when he is released from the hospital
but he lived through a temperature
which would have killed drinking
man in the wink Of an eye. This
article Is not temperance lecture, but
1t is well, just the same, TO be moderate
II your indications when You intend
20 spend day under the hot summer
sun.
had talk the other dav with DIR.
Dole, the chief physician at Blooming
dale insane asylum II IL probable
that DR.. Dole comes in daily contact
with more lunatics, bowling and 9th
eryyise, than any other man in the
=
had il his charge az least forty hope
lessly insane men and women, whose
insanity could De traced directly 70
sunstroke. he confirmed the state
ments that had been made at Bellevue
concerning the danger Of hard drink
ing n hot weather
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OF sunstrOke. This : the way the man
tells his story;
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Frustrated bv sunstroke l. was In
little interior city, and 7 was acting
a collector Tor business fra We
had been having exceedingly hot
weather for more than week. but /
had Tot felt any II effects from hav-
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