Arizona republican., 1901-07-29
PREDICTS COOL AUGUST
How Much Heat the Human System
 Can Endure.

The warm weather flags flying from one end of this county to another, and indeed throughout the torrid and temperate belts of the world. have given rise to many and singular hheo- ries providing n cause. Phoenix has an astronomer, Frederick w. Webb, who believes that the causes of bhe in tense heat of this summer are identical with those which produced similar weather forty-seven years ago.
 On the l2th of August, according to Mir. Webbs astronomical deduction, the heat ridden citizens may look for some relief from the extreme torridity which has converted Phoenix into city of electric fans and linens.
 Jupiter, he says, is a powerful re- Hector, and when the earth passes be- tween tha.. planet and the sun mer- cury inevitably rises in the thermom- eters. This occurred six years ago dur ing the winter and the season was the most mild known in many years. This year Jupiter was in opposition to the sun on June 30 and the earth at present. is under the reflection of Saturn as well as Jupiter. The earth will leave the reflection of Saturn about August F. when lower temperature may be expected. as the earth will not strike the reflection of any other planet be- fore November.
 Phoenix may be shocked to know that while the mercury here has scaled lJtty heights during this wave of intense heat. and citizens have been fioclling to cooler climes to escape suffering, 1t is quite possible for the human system to tone itself to withstand eco degrees of heat. This scientists assert positively Is knowledge gained by experiments. Nowhere on the earth's surface does solar heat begin to approach mans ca- pacity for resistance.
 Instances are numerous showing that men have graduated themselves n withstand fierce heat. One hundred ana forty degrees Fahrenheit is a terrific heat to be recorded In the sun under natural conditions in any latitude. Tn Death valley in California such heat has been measured, and in 1t the ordi- nary man may adjust himself with safety. As to the capacity of endur- ance in the educated freak. Chabert. the Fire King of Great Britain, used to enter an oven which ranged from 400 to 600 degrees Fahrenheit, although he was forced to adopt measures to prevent the blisterinS of lis feet Half that amount of heat is sufficient for boiling water.
 Stokers in the holds of big vessels shovel coal in a st!hing atmosphere, heated from 190 to lS0 degrees. They work at It day after day, and often year after year, without visible harm. The heat of Phoenix is not only mild in comparison with that daily endured by thousands and even millions of people but certainly is less oppressive than that which holds the whole east and middle states in its grasp
 Solar heat alone ,loes mt seem to produce sunstroke, and this is what puzzles medical science. Nobody knows what takes place in the buman system under stress of sunstroke," said a local physician. An autopsy reveals virtually nothing. Sambon of London has made wide investigation of the subject, and if he has roado some rad ical deductions no one else is in a posi- tion 10 dispute them"
 sambon announced in 1898 with some degree of finality the infedtiousness of sunstroke, which he called by its old name, "siriusis," coined by the Eeyp- tians, so called because 1t Is most fre- quent when Sirius, tht dog star rises