Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1877 — Sunstroke. [ARTICLE]

Sunstroke.

Tbe sudden acaession of heat has al-( ready produced .one fatal, and more than; one severe, case of sunstroke in the metropolis. Probably riiie affectioe jo designated is not the malady to which toe term coup de eoleil can >be properly applied. The condition brought about is an exaggerated form of the disturbaaoe.occasioned by entering toOfOuddenly tiae ** hot” room of a Turkish bath. The skit, does wot immediately penfarm its function as an evaporating and thasefore cooling surface, and an acute fetaile state of the organism k established, with a disturbed balance of .circulation, and more or less cerebral irritation as a prominent feature of the complaint. Death may suddeely occur at the .outset of the (Complaint, as it has happened in a Turkish bath, where the subject labors under some predi position to apoplexy, or has a weak or diseased heart. It should suffice to point owt the danger and to explain, by way of warning, that al though the degrees of heat registered by the thermoaoeter, or the power of the sun’s rays, do not seem to suggest especial caution, all sudden changes from a low to a high temperature are attended with danger to weak organisms. The avoidance of undue exercise—for example, persistent trotting or cantering up and down the Row—is an -obvious precaution on days marked by a relatively, if not absolutely, high tem perature. We direct attention to this matter because it is obvious the peculiar peril of overheating the body by exertion on the first burst of fine weather is not generally realized. It is forgotten that the increased temperature must be measured by the elevation which has recently taken place, not the number of degrees of heat at present recorded. The registered temperature may be more or leas than tha which occurred a year ago; but its im mediate effects on tne organism will be d termined by the conditions which have | prem ded it and the violence of the change. |—lamest.