Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — Buttermilk for Sunstroke. [ARTICLE]

Buttermilk for Sunstroke.

If used moderately instead of water, beer, or any other stimulant, buttermilk will ever prove a preventive of iunstroke or heat prostration. As additional evidence other than my many years of personal knowledge I refer to an incident at Des Moines, la., years ago, when some twenty or more cases of sunstroke occurred in one day, most of whom were mechanics and day laborers, teamsters, etc. So many were prostrated in one day that an infallible preventive buttermilk—was recommended by the aged agricultural editor of the" lowa State Register, C. F. Clarkson. Immediately requisition was made on the rural districts for the lacteal fluid, and all the drinking resorts were supplied with the ice-cold article. I personally sampled the goods, business having called me to the city, with the mercury at 108 degrees ana over, and though over three-score and ten, I was on the streets without an umbrella from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m., with no dinner and only five glasses of the buttermilk, which 1 drank slowly, at intervals. It quenches thirst, strengthens nerves, quiets the pulse, and invigorates the man. —St. Louis Republic.