The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-29
GSEECT OF HEAT.
Tho Human System Can Become Used e
Very High Tenn Persture.

Tho Human System Can Become Used 70
q Very High Temperature.
No one can tell bow high q temper
lture man can endure until he is sub
Iected to the trial The effect of IN IN,
tensely heated atmosphere in causing
death has been but little studied.
"Some years since" says DR.. Taylor,
The eminent jurisprudent, Il was con-
suited in one case in which the captain
of a steam vessel was charged with
menslaughter for causing a man 10 be
dashed within q short distance of the
ytoke-hole of the furnace. The man
lied in a few hours, apparently from
the effects of his exposure. Yet the
engine rooms of steamers in the tropics
have been observed to have a temper
sture as high as 40, and engineers
sitter a time become habituated to this
excessive heat, without appearing to
suffer materially in health. In certain
manufactures the body appears to ac-
quire the power, by habit, of resisting
these high temperatures; still il has
been proved that many suffer severe
children (London), it is stated that in a
glass mandatory a thermometer held
close to boys head stood at $50 de-
grees, and as the inspector stood near
10 observe the instruments his hat
actually melted out Of shape. Another
boy had his hair singed by the heat,
md said that his clothes were come
times singed, too, while a third worked
in temperature no less than $50 de-
grees Amid this tremendous heat
they carry on work which requires their
constant attention They are inces-
sanity in motion"
In the Turkish bath higher temper
atures than this have been noted, but
there Is reason TO believe that serious
symptoms have been occasionally pro-
duced in persons unaccustorned to
them. and that in one or two cases death
has resulted All sudden changes from
"a low to a high temperature are Hable
TO cause death in aged persons or In
those who are suffering from organic
diseases. In attempting % breathe
air heated 10 temperature varying
from $50 to 200 degrees, there is q sense
OF sufocation. with feeling Of dizzi-
ness and other symptoms indicative Of
an effect on the brain, and the circula-
ton is enormously quiokered- An in
quest was held on the body Of stoke,
OF an ocean steamship. He had been
by trade grocer, and was not secus-
toned 70 excessive heat While occu-
pied before the engine furnace he was
observed TO fail suddenly to the floor
In state OF insensibility. When car
3ed ON deck it WIS found he was
dead. All that was discovered on
Post-mortem examination was an ef-
fusion of serum into the ventricies of
the brain It has nIup become one of
the recognized causes of death in this
country. In some cases person may
sink and die from exhaustion, or symp-
toms Of cerebral disturbance may con-
rnsteiy prove fatal
Death from sunssrotIe, when Il is not
immediately fatal. is preceded by some
~en-maTiSed symptoms. such as weak
ness. giodiness, headache. disturbed VI.
sioa, flushing az the face, followed by
oppression and difficulty Of breathing,
ana In come cases stupor. passing into
profound coma The skin is dry and
hot and the heat OF the bedy is much
greater than natural.
Walk slowly and don't fret and YOU
VIII not experience anything Of that
sort,-PhindclphiaT Times.