Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-01
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simple RuIcs For Treating People.
who Have Been Overcome by the.


no nave Beeu OFcfcOhle ~ the
Heat.
(, Gases Of what is variously known as
sunstroke, heatstroke or heat prostra-
tfon are most likely to occur when the
humidity is high. The elimination of
heat from the body depends Upon e~ap-
Grafton from the skin, and, as a hos
pital physician points out In an ar
ticle on THE Treatment Of Heat Pros
tration" in the July number OF the
Druggists Circular" the conversion u
perspiratlon into vapor with the conse-
quent drying of the skin. is best accom-
plished when the amount of moisture
in the air becomes greater, 1t becomes
less and less easy for the perspiration
TO evaporate. The skin grows wet and
the sweat, stands out in drops. The
temperature OF the body rises and the
patient dies of too much heat or the
heat centers in the brain are paralyzed
by stored-up poison, the bodily temper
ature falls, and the patient dies OF ex-
haustion. These latter cases are rare.
I'VE must remember" the Druggists
Cireular" says, that the sun Is not nee
essary TO 'sunstroke.' Moisture is much
more noxious. for II the atmosphere is
dry so that the evaporation Of the
oWtdI GdVlu, dtiuOSt any tchpCAaluAC
:. can be borne. Furthermore, there are
mora people overcome In buildings
IMAM I'm the open air To be sure most
OF the cases reported in the papers are
street cases, and most of the ambulance
calls are for these cases, but they bear
a small proportion to those not so re-
ported. IL ii were the direct action or
the sun, the most afflicted would be che
A Gar Nd - do
whereas there. are mere cases among
factory hands and others engaged in
indoor occupations"
When case of heat proStration
shows a high temperature, the patient
Dhould be. bathed in a tub of water at
Temperature of so or IS degrees TO begin
with. Ice should at once be employed
to reduce the temperature to 60 The
surface of the body must be rubbed in
order to bring hot blood from the heart
to be cooled and to send the cool blood
from The surface to the organs. The
pitient should stay in the bath fifteen
minutes unless his temperature drops
to 100, or he shows "a collapse de
should be dried somewhat without too
much rubbing and lie under sheet. x
rubber blanket or a sponge may be
= 1t is we'll to give the patient little
whiskey before the bath, and the tenn
perature should be taken every half
hour afterward. When 1t has risen
above 103 or 104 the bath should be re-
peated. If the temperature does not be-
come satisfactory stimuiants are to be
mployed-whiskey, aromatic amonia,
stryehnine and digitalis. Generally the
temperature stays down after the Sec
ond or third bath. The patient should
drink small amounts of cold water-not
iceland as soon as the fever is under
control quick cathartic should be
given.
1t is impossible to over-stimulate the
patient in case where the temperature
Is low. Besides administering the slim
ulants mentioned above, the nurse
should roll the sufferer in blankets and
put around him hot water bottles, hot
bricks, fiat irons or anything eise hot
Hot drinks should also be given.
For preventing prostration nothing is
SO good as frequent batns. Care must
be taken to avoid weakness through
!. staying too long in the water.