The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-06-26
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The Human Syste1 Can Become Used TO
High Temperature.
| No one can tell now high tempera-
ture man can cEGure until he is sub
| iected to the tr.ai The effect of an in
tensely-hca,ad Atmosphere in causing
leath has been Lut little studied.
Some years s.nce," says DR.. Taylor,
the eminent juIisprudcnt, Il was con-
| suited in one case "a which the captain
| of 4 steam vessel was charged with man.
slaughter for causing man TO be lashed
within a Snort 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 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 power, by
| habit, of resisting these high tempera-
lures; still, it has been proved that
| many suffer severely. In a report on
| the employment of children Oondon)
( it is stated that in glass mandatory
q thermometer held close TO boys
head stood at 130 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
| 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 necessarily in notion"
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 4
low to high temperature are liable to
cause death in aged persons or those
who are suffering from organic dis
eases. In attempting to breathe air
heated to temperatures varying from
$50 to 200 degrees there is a sense of
suffocation, with a 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 a stoker of an
ocean steamship. He had been by trade
a 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
it was found he was dead. All that was
discovered on a post-mortem eXamina-
ton was an effusion of serum into the
Fentricles of the brain. 1t has now be-
come one of the recognized causes of
death in this country. In some cases q
person may sink and die from ex-
haustion, or symptoms of cerebral dis
turbance may continue for some time
and the case ultimately prove fatal.
Death from sunstroke, when it is not
Immediately fatal, is preceded by some
well-mari.ed symptoms, such as weak
ness, giddiness, headache, disturbed vi |
sion, flushing of the face, followed by |
oppression 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.