Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-31
FOR PREVENTION
 OF SUNSTROKE
Some Suggestions as to How One May Avoid Being Overcome by
 the Heat of the Dog Bays.


 No one need be told that the op- pressiVe heat and humidity that af- tllct us in these days are sources of great danger to such as may be lit ble to sunstroke, says the New York ,tleralp Any preventative mens- ure that can be taken should appeal to everyone AS we cannot control external conditions of heat and hu- midity, the next best thing that ap- peals to us is to mitigate their ef fleets as much as possible
 It is we'll known that there is different tolerance for heat in diff ferent individuals. The main trou- ble is in estimating the limit of en- durance.
 It is also we'll known that persons who have once been overcome with heat are peculiarly liable to subse- quent attacks. Tn fact, most of them have high persentativeshrdlu them have high hypersensitivenes to sun heat in every shape. For tunately for them they soon learn by experience to avoid all the eX- citing causes of their original seiz- ure.
 o,+ ,,l,J ,s 1t: those who while weak and exhaust ed for themselves to work either ill the glaring sun or in lot and close quarters within doors.
 Heat exhaustion on the one hand and sunstroke on the other aye practically only different degrees of the same general condition, mani festing themselves in more or less direct ways to the general end.
 In either cae there is an inability to guard the body against the out side heat. When we understand that in health the temperature of the body must always be the same, no matter what the outside temper ature may be, we can in measure appreciate the intricate and wonder. full agencies that make such thing possible under so many and varied ly circumstances from without.
 It is in this condition of adapta- tion that our safety consists The healthy body, while having US own fraternal furnace, always regulates it's own heat The register mus. al- ways be the same. In fact. the control of the animal heat is only second to it's original production.
 The main means to such an end is skin evaporation. Wher. this is interfered with in any way there is trouble. In sunstroke, for instance there is always a hot and dry skin. How can we make the most of cur cooling capabilities and humor them to their fullest extent? If we perspire freely we take the l first step. To keep the skin clear, | clean transpirable and alertly re- 1 sponsible to changes is of prime importance Light outer garments, cool bathing, flaming breezes, shady retreats, cold, bland drinks and light foods all help to maintain the 1 equilibrium between the inside and outside body. These sound simple enough on general principles, but how few think of applying them properly.
 The thoughtless one will load his internal furnace with the same fuel l he uses in the coldest weater and open his flues the wider, that it burn the more iercely. What he 1 should help he directly flinders. With overloaded stomach, necessar- fly embarrassed digestion, weaken ed heart, brain overstimulated with 1 alcohol and with the general de- bility that follows in the train, ne ] is in the worst possible condition to resist high temperature in any shape. Is it any wonder that such individuals are almost invariably stricken?