Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-22
SAVING 4 HEAT VICTIM
Sun Stricken Reporter Tells
 How He Was Treated.

| not only successful in saving the life i of the patient, but the process to which the sunstruck one is subjected Is pleas l ant and bracing This account was 1 written by reporter for the New York World who was recently treated at Bellevue for sunstroke:
 | It was curious series of circum- stances that sent me to the isolation ward of Bellevue Too much to eat at irregular hours and not half enough sleep. followed by a wild desire to hus- i tie in the hot sun on an important news story. gave me feeling of awful I lassitude and dejecton. The work to be done lay over east of Second ave nue. At 5 o'clock I remember labor ing along heavily in a slow walk. my legs feeling like bags of sand and my head throbbiEg painfully. felt hot, | dry, stifing. feyerish.
 1 Suddenly my body seemed to go sail ing smoothly in midair, the unneeded legs floating uselessly under it. All the world was whirling in mass of red vapor wrea ths. and I began to ! fall. The falling sensation seemed 10 last for ages. l fell. now fast, now slow. again fast, until l plunged into the polar sea. ...
 Oh, how cold it was! Surely nothing i else could be half so cold as this. Dim ly my struggling mind began to re- 1 member reading somewhere the Eski- mo belief that hell is a place of eter- i nal, illimitable ice This surely was that place Fuhr, who nobly stood by his fallen companion, afterward as 1 sured me that quite twenty minutes elapsed from the time dropped like a i log on the hot side of Twenty fourth street until began Hopping like a { newly caught fish in the ice water tub at Bellevue, but the mind of the pa tient recognized no gap between the l fall and the ice bath.
 struggled with all the force that was in me to break the grasp of count | less hands that held me down in that 1 icy sea. They were not trying to 1 drown me, for nose and eyes always i remained above the waves, but surely they were going to freeze me to death. , for the cold of the icy sea seemed to strike into the spinal cord itself. With one last gathering of strength l plunged upward. No use Eight hands held me fast Now I noticed that the eight hands were chaing me ceaselessly from head to foot Per haps, after all, their intentions were not murderous. As my mind became clearer I was able to distinguish the 1 face of the man in command. a long, studious face. with square blue chin and lit by kindly blue eyes that gleanned through glasses.
 ! Not so bad now said the face. What's his temperature?'
 "One hundred and one, six. doctor replied another face, which had not seen before.
 Good said the doctor Keep the massage going.
 The eight hands flew over the pa tients body. rubbing as briskly as the hands of trainers over football player. There was in the situation a humorous likeness to that of an athlete being rubbed down between rounds. The patient grinned little at the idea.
 How're you feeiing?" asked the doc tor.
 "Kuk kuk kuk cold" I replied. "They've got 5000 cubic miles of ice and salt packed on the top of the back of my head"
 "M-m-m," unused the doctor, while he and his three assistants kept on briskly ehafing limbs and body. What's the temperature"
 Ninety answered voice.
 Good" was the doctors comment. "Now. then"'
 Lifted by the eight hands. the pa tient's body was waited from the icy polar sea to a bed. small. white cot. I lay back on warm. exauisitely clean woolen blankets and shivered luxuri- ousiy. But the ice mountain at the top of the back of my head still felt so in. tensely cold that it seemed to burn. . The doctor cut the string under my ear and took off big rubber cap filled with cracked ice looked down from the %; and saw beside the bed long bathtub on four rubber tired wheels. IL was painted white outside and made of spotless. highly polished zine with in. A dozen or more crystal chunks Of ice fioated' in the water The doctor laughed as looked down into the tub and shivered.
 "You'n do.'' he said You're all right"
 Afte- q few hours rest they brought me a bowl of chicken broth and bsde me eat it slowly. I have never tasted nectar. but surely it must be something like this. The doctor came in and said I might go home. but l must he sure to get long nights sleep.
 "A knockdown like this takes 8 lot out of you" he said You were not one of the worst eases. but you must be careful. The bsthl That wasn't so awfully cold. We never let it get be low 55 degrees F. The cold plnnge and plenty of massage stimulated your cir culatlon and brought it hack to the normal If you had been a very bad case We would have given y0n hypo dermic injections of digitslis and strychnine to spur the heart to ac- tion Rui you didn't need that"
 MIA S.aIx.