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Credit: Remarks on sun-stroke / by Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Medical Time 206 Mod'cnl Times & Gazette. HULKE overcome, books, and prayer-boo was judici dispersion > general se: assembled at the san different c appearance 300 being and genera deadened carried int( meal was p the Giver c every ware many of tl offering hi disqualifiec short servi ticable, wil to admit se ing service of the offi took place, coffin was 1 mon box, those who by some of the latest v buried whe they had b the blessee un ur pi I0H ’ qycroui 1 qnxrnnu •a. otp jo ss uo adjfj 1 jo uc jo n\ I put! ‘pi •snpimj 91 excess of heat. In accordance with this statemJ known that spirits are most destructive, and tha'J of hot climates eschew them, and do not in cl up milk or animal food. If they take fat, morcovJ haps, not very largely, and it is always associated 1 food, which exerts very little influence over tlJ the skin. It is a very doubtful point as to theu the Government introducing into India the strorl country under conditions so diverse from thosej drink them, and although they are less powpl direction now referred to than stronger ale oho [ usually be injurious. With very moderate living it is clear that regarded as an indispensable adjunct, and that be excluded at the hot season and during expos™ heat, except by the comparative few in whon | usually too active. It should, for the purpose the action of the skin, be taken without milk or d moderate doses, and very frequently. Indeed,! conditions it should be the constant beverage thj day, but not drunk in large quantities at a timed to me that the importance of this agent is not b] so well understood as it ought to be, and that it-j the great advantage of our soldiers if the GoviJ duly informed as to its value and even its necess I would just add a word in reference to the I cases of sun stroke. It is clear that these c; regarded as due essentially to excess of heat in t that independent of exposure to the direct rays even to very exceptionably high degrees of tempc I first remedy usually applied is that of water, wl [ of lower temperature than that of the body, car | cold, but its free use has been of the utmost servi off threatened attacks. In the attacks, howeve: I cold douche, nor the wet sheet have commonly becl as Mr. Chappie has well shown. As the greatest of all desiderata is the return el of the skin, I venture to hint that beyond a cerjl the direct application of the cool water is like! jurious by interfering with any attempts to action ; for if remedies be given which increas increase, perspiration, then action will certainly I by the application of anything to the skin whic.q temperature than that of the body. In this condition I very earnestly commend tl tea, in doses of twenty-five grains every quartd given in a weak infusion of about three to six ouj a temperature but little below that of the body, of tea beyond that on the skin already referred -I to increase the vital action through the me: nervous system; and it has a powerful and sud| in increasing the respiratory functions. Hence if far as it can three of the most urgent wants, viz. body, removal of the listlessness and oppression,<1 of the respiratory action—it being clearly undd respiration has in itself a great tendency to lessenl rature of the body. Diffusible stimulants, as ai' f been found somewhat useful, and that no doulj tendency to act through the skin. I have also sl'I] addition of alkalies to tea increases the * action substance upon the skin, and hence it would bej neutral acetate of ammonia or acetate](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22435955_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
