Show Daily H Health S Service t S EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE This is the fifth I of a seri series s of or seven timely articles by Dr Morris Fishbein on Summer Care of Health By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of ot the American Med Mcd- i ical kal Association and of the Health Magazine 1 I In his guide for people who are i i living in the tropics Professor Aldo CastellanI suggests that the first step In heat stroke is to loosen the clothIng clothIng clothing cloth- cloth Ing to get the person Into as cool coola coo a place as possible to put the person person person per per- son on a bed covered with a large rubber sheet and then to rub Ice anc and cold water over the body In order to aid heat beat radiation from tram the body electric fans may be used At the same time that the Ice is rubbed over oyer the skin it Is Js well to apply vigorous vigorous vig vig- vig- vig orous friction or massage in order to o promote the circulation One of the he dangers of the cold sponge is col cob lapse apse For this reason the p patients patient's temperature Is taken regularly and when it falls to 1016 degrees taken I Iby by the bowel instead of ot by the mouth It Is customary to stop the i application of or cold water sponging or the Ice lee rub to cover the patient with blankets and to watch him car carefully care care- fully ully in order that he shall not col cob lapse apse In some Instances serious symptoms toms have resulted because of or increase increase in in- crease in the cerebrospinal fluid Hence In serious cases spinal fluid is removed by the physician through spinal puncture Not infrequently It Itis itIs itis is also desirable to remove remO some of Ithe the blood from the patient by openIng opening opening open open- ing a vein In order to restore normal circulation If breathing stops In this type of unconsciousness as well as in an any I form of unconsciousness due to electrical elec elec- shock or gas poisoning or some similar cause artificial respiration should be kept up This should not be stopped after atter a few minutes be because because because be- be L cause o of failure It should be kept up for hours Indeed as long as there Is 15 any possibility that the heart and breathing may be Induced to continue spontaneously I A person who has had a heat heatstroke heatstroke heatstroke stroke should not nut be given large quantities o of food He Ho should however however how how- ever be given small quantities of or nutritious nu nu- food rood repeatedly Including milk soups broths eggs and sImilar similar similar simi simi- lar soft and easily digestible sub- sub stances |