The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-05
effect OF HEAT.
rhe Human System Can Become Used 60
u High Temperature.


rhe Human system Can Become Used TO
u High Temperatures.
No one can tell how high a tempen-
ture man can endure until he is SUBJ
jected to the trial. The effect of an in
tensely-heated atmosphere in causing
1eath has been but little studied.
Some years since," says DIR. Taylor,
the eminent jurisprudent, 81 was con-
suited in one case in which the captain
slaughter for causing man TO be laahed
within short distance of the stoke
hole of the furnace. The man died 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 temperature as high
as 140, and engineers after time be-
come habituated to this excessive heat
without appearing to suffer materially
in health. In certain manufactures the
body appears to acquire a power, by
habit, of resisting the5e high tempera-
lures; still, it has been proved that
many suffer severely. In a report on
the employment of children (London)
1t is stated that in glass manufactory
thermometer held close TO boys
head stood at 13O degrees, and as the in
spector stood near to observe the in
strument his hat actually melted out of
shape. Another boy had his hair singed
by the heat, and said that his clothes
were sometimes singed, too, while a
third worked in a temperature no less
than $50 degrees. Amid this tremen-
dous heat they carry on work which re-
quires their constant attention. They
are incessantly in motion"
In the Turkish baths higher tempera-
lures 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 n
low TO a high temperature are liable to
cause death in aged persons or those
who are suffering from organic dis
eases. In attempting 10 breathe air
heated to temperatures varying from
$50 to 200 degrees. there is a sense of
suffocation, with feeling of dizziness
and other symptoms indicative of an
effect on the brain, and the circulation
Is enormously quickened. An inquest
was held on the body of O stoler of an
ocean steamship. He had been by trade
q grocer and was not accustomed to
excessive heat. While occupied before
the engine furnace he was observed to
fall suddenly on the floor in a state of
insensibility. When carried on deck
1t was found he was dead. All that was
discovered on a post-mDrtem examine
ton was an effusion of serum into the
ventricles of the brain. It has now be-
come one of the recognized causes of
death in this country. In some cases a
person may sink and die from ex-,
or symptoms of cerebral dis
turbance may continue for some time
and the case ultimately prove fatal.
Death from sunstroke, when it Is not
fatal, is preceded by some
well-marl-ed symptoms, euch as weak
ness, giddiness, headache, disturbed VI
sion, flushing of the face, followed by
and difficulty of breathing,
and in some cases stupor, passing into
profound coma. The skin is dry and
hot and the heat of the body is much
greater than natural.
Walk slowly and don't fret and you
will not experience anything Of that
sort.-Philadelphia Times.