The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-29
EFFECT OF HEAT.
The Human System Can Become Used Il
High Temperature.

The Human System Can become Used to
High Temperature.
No one can tell how high tempera-
ture man can endure until no is sub
jected to the trial. The effect of an in.
tensely heated atmosphere in causing
death has been but little studied.
Some years since" says DIR. Taylor,
the eminent jurisprudent. 81 was con-
suited in one case III which the captain
Of steam vessel was charged with
manslaughter for causing man to be
dashed within short distance Of the
stokehole of the furnace. The man died
in a few hours, apparently from the eff
fects of his exposure. Yet the engine
rooms of steamers in the tropics have
been observed TO have a temperature as
high as l40, and engineers after time
become habituated 10 this excessive
heat without appearing to suffer ma
terially in health. In certain manufac-
tories the body appears to acquire q
power by habit of resisting these high
temperatures. Still, it has been proved
that many suffer severely.
SIN a report on the employment of
children (London) it is stated that in a
glass mandatory a thermometer held
close to a boys head stood at 1870 de-
grees, and as the inspector stood near
to observe the instrument his hat ac-
tually melted out of shape. Another
boy had his hair singed by the heat
and said that his clothes were some
times singed, too, while third worked
in a temperature no less than $50 de-
grees. Amid this tremendous heat they
carry on work which requires their con-
slant attention. They are necessarily
in motion.
In the Turkish baths higher temper
atures than this have been noted, but
there is reason to believe that serious
symptoms have been occasionally pro-
duced in persons unaccustomed to them.
and that in one or two cases death has
resulted. All sudden changes from a
low to a high temperature are liable to
cause death in aged persons or i'll those
who are suffering from organic diseases.
In attempting TO breathe air heated 70
temperatures varying from $50 to goo
degrees there is a sense of suffocation,
with q feeling of dizziness and other
symptoms indicative of an effect on the
brain, and the circulation is enormous
" quickened. An inquest was held on
the body of stoker Of an ocean steam.
ship. He had been by trade a grocer and
was not accustomed TO excessive heat.
While occupied before the engine fur
mace he was obs served to fall suddenly
on the floor in "a state Of insensibility.
When carried on deck, il was found he
was dead. All that was discovered on 8
postmortem examination was an eifu
sion Of serum into the ventrioles of the
brain. 1t has now become one OF the
recognized causes Of death in this coun
try. In some cases a person may sink
and die from exhaustion or symphonic
of cerebral disturbance may continue fo
some time and the case ultimately prove
fatal.
Death from sunstroke, when it is no
Immediately fatal, is preceded by some
well marked symptoms, such as weak
ness, giddiness, headache, disturbed
vision, flushing of the face, followed b!
oppression and difficulty of breathing
and in some cases stupor, passing int
profound coma. The skin is dry ant
hot, and the heat Of the body is mucl
greater than natural
Walk slowly aud don't fret. and yo'
will not experience anything OF tina
sort. -Philadelphia Times.