| Show m- m iT Drink i Frigid Fluids to tom tom-K Keep the m-B m Body Cool t BY JAMES J. J WALSH M. M D. D i N extreme hot weather l tk chief protection fue I against heat hea stroke and heat exhaustion Is s to keep kep kepI V fk r coo cooL That seems such an anI I r 4 obvious truism that most r I f. people will think at once that it i Is quite quit absurd advice and yet it contains In essence all that c car can be bo said with nith regard to protective measures against a being overcome b by t tb the heat beat 1 In the tropical climates where they are f ted to having very hot weather weRther continuously they arrange life and baJin business BO so as asto 2 to keep c coo coot n ii the hottest part of ot th the day Tn The middle of ot the day at least kast from twelve lve to o three o'clock practically no business s is done people stay Indoors and I often oten they make up for the sleep lost the k night be before Core because o of the heat by a nap 1 or at least an hour In a reclining position I It H when tropical weather er come comes to us I 1 Wf we could do that there would probably be beI beao I n 1 ao heat beat strokes certainly they the would be beI I t much fewer than they are aTe at present Our OurI I lives are arranged on the basis basU bas of the but busi- busi i- i I Des nes that can bo be done at other tempera tempera- I tures ture Probably we cannot change the I business customs for the sake of the com com- f few w very hot bot days that w we e have but ut definite personal effort can be directed to th the avoidance of ot expo exposure Ore to heat beat In Inthe Inthe the middle of ot the day and to providing aJ a J longer p period for Cor th the midday j rest Rat I There are two Important external aids to keeping cool First and most important im im- im j is cool water and the second cool I air fr Tho latter Is not easy to obtain on ona 6 a hot day but we ha have o found that tho treating of artificial currents ur of air by 0 Cans fans carrying heat hent away from the body erves an aa excellent cooling purpose I 1 t Light clothing permits heat to be e dissipated into the air nir much uch more readily y Where here actual actually cool air can an be bc enjoyed it its is ia s very refreshing Cool water however JJ y jia is is at the command of practically every 1 oue and should be used freely externally nud aud internally I i There i is a 11 curious traditional that co cold d water when one is hot may produce serious results This is la a remnant remnant rem rem- nant llant of the feeling which in older times made physicians keep their fever patients in warm rooms absolutely avoiding the touch of water and even giving in them warm drinks day To-day when a n patient suffers Buffers from heat stroke and the thc temperature mourns mounts to degrees or even higher an nn ice bath bathis is Is the routine treatment The temperature temperature temper temper- must be brought down Some patients who drop dop overcome by the heat hent h in the summer time are not suffering from Tom heat stroke however but heat ex ox- Their temperature is below the normal They must not be treated by cold applications but on the contrary by stimulation This gives ives the indication I for the use of cold water When we arc 1 overheated it Is good for us If we f feel l I exhausted and ver very tired then the cold bath may w well ll be replaced by a tepid bath followed by as 8 much r rubbing cool water as will prove stimulating Cold wa water t r on the Inside of ot the ilie body I is just as important as on the outside Physicians now give th their iT fever patients I an abundance of cool ool drinks There are some hospitals in which a tube hangs near neat the patient leading from cool water I and he can an drink whenever he hc wants to Three generations ago such cool ool drinks would have been considered as surely surety preparing preparing pre pre- paring a fatal termination for t these ese cases The death rate from fevers however however however how how- ever is lower not higher than ilian it used to tobe tobe tobe be and cool drinks and cold old baths butha not only to add to the comfort of these patients patients pa pa- Hents but lower their fever and add to their resistive vitality of or water Vater should be What Is thus true said also abo of food Not ot so much food is nE netted needed e but to take too little weakens resistive vitality Eat in variety nr ety what has been n the custom lessening the amount to suit the thc diminished appetite of hot I L 1 t. t n 1 IV weather OL uc U LU U summer Hummer time should bould be cold rather than warm It should be carefully cooked and kept from dust or from any possibility peas peas- i- i of change in composition through h hC heat t but taken cold it will always serve serveto to to reduce rather than elevate the temperature temperature tempera tempera- ture tare and besides beside the tire consumption of its di will divert divert di dl- heat hent necessary for digestion lS on vert that much h heat at from making itself felt on oil the nervous system In the middle of the tho day particularly cold meats sala salads 8 cold d desserts and of course cold 01 drinks of various arious kinds should be the rule Many ranY persons Insist on believing that tho the taking of at iced beverages and nna Iced 1 desserts dessert is bad for the digestion digl The experience during the last generation in WI America however has shown very clearly that instead d of f being harmful these rather ther do good Natures Nature's method of coolin cooling the body isby Isby is isby by the evaporation of pc perspiration For this an abundance of fluid Is required and if that fluid be taken cold it further dissipates dissipates I pates heat beat b because the body has hns to warm it up to its own stationary temperature to tOI use It in the circulation If ice cold drin drinks s were injurious many Americans Americana would be bein bein bein in a continual state of illness durin during th the summer time Other countries are adopting adopt adept ing American habits in this matter after ha having decried them In this thil as zu In many other matters matter of health instinct has proved a better guido guide than supposed science Fever er pati nta used to cra crave e cold drinks and often got up when free from observation and took them surreptitiously and then feared the worst worst- Many a beginning improvement in fever followed such an Indulgence Taste is probably still the best guide to food and drink and a number of observations I made In the last lut ten tea years have shown that large quantities of fluid instead of hampering dig digestion tion actually help it There has bas been a complete change In physiological teaching in this thia respect In very cry recent years yeara ear The he instinct that tempts people to take considerable quantities of cool fluid in inthe Inthe Inthe the summer time is a 8 good one Like every other good thing however It may maybe maybe maybo be bo abused If cold water is drunk drank very rapidly natures nature's appetite appetito for Cor it cannot be properly gauged 8 and more will be taken than Instinct asks for It If it is drunk runk reasonably slowly howe however er nature re will vi Ii I say when c is enough Bad habits may bo be formed of ot gulping bUlpin ice water that I will do harm These The exceptions however only prove the We rule rulo established by the experience experience ex ex- of ot two generations that an abundance of cool drinks which are not o h Is an nn excellent provision against overheating tin There Is another significance of ot the ilic phrase keeping kepin cool that is jj extremely Important in ill warm weather That is to keep cool mentally Not to permit emotion emo tion nor worry nor anxiety nor o to use P up large quantities of nerve force and up upset ct natures nature's economy that is te isher her management of our internal ja affairs during the trying hot weather Many of those who suffer from hent heat stroke or are overcome in I less degree by heat have been worrying about business matters or family affairs or have hn been disturbed disturb by anxiety with regard to some critical decision that wat had nad to be made nude Keeping J mentally cool I Is quite as 88 important im im- ml- ml as keeping physically cooL ooL This ia is is particularly true for the old or for those who are in delicate health or for those who know that they are sufferers from rom kidney ki ney or heart disease for they are especially prone to be bo overcome by hot weather if mental troubles are arc added to tho serious physical problem of keeping keeping keep keep- ing lug tho the temperature normal in hot weather f 1 t. t |
