Show n fAT EAT MEN BEST ENDURE HEAT Scientists Decide Girthy Type Has Least Suffering PITTSBURG April rat 23 3 rat Fat men endure high temperatures and e ec- ec ex excessive humidity better than thin men and Ice hater ateI does not necessarily necessarily I dC develop elop intestinal dIstress I These o facts are arc disclosed in a n report re- re report re report port or of o experiments e conducted here hero by the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers In operation co with avith the United States bureau ot or mines and the th Carnegie Institute of ot Technology In e experiments to d determine the relative effect or of o various tempera tempera- temperatures tures and on the human body the scientists also found that thai sweat Is the tin chief factor affecting the eyes oes when the human bod body becomes heated 1 iC COMFORT LiNG Tho The objects of tile the the experiments Va was to establish the exact degree of temperature and of humidity or comfort lines a human being should be subjected to In a room The problem Was vas first attacked se eral 5 years cars ago aRo and the tho research a ork orb has bis now reached re II a n point where definite h i hM obtained First experiments were to study the physiological effects creech of temperatures and nd on human subjects in till still air all and fot fOI these a staff of physicians and em- em em plo es of or the society ha haw o 0 subject subject- ed subjected cs to greAt creat hardships One of the most Important re- re re suits results of the experiments ills s the try of the great greIt variations of external human temperature a a hu- hu hu ame man being can endure and at the same time retain his physiological efficiency Another fact developed Ismore was that increasing pulse rate Is more morp the cause of discomfort than thans Is body temperature when hen In a heated room wi wiT T 1 T EYES While irrelevant ant to the present study an attempt was made to de- de ermino dc-ermino the cau cause e of inflammation of the eyes t ts t's and also to determine whether drinking of of Ice tee water pro pro- pro produces produce duce dutt duces cramps as so co often com eom- com of bv Lv Industrial workers said sa the report On On a day when the tho eyes e ees es were normal a small mall quantity of sweat dunnan durman had Iad been collected durm dUrIn an c experiment nt was was dropped into Inlo the ce eye The conjunctiva t ImmedIately became Inflamed and the collected eye tye felt tore sore The S sweat tnt col- col from the face seemed less Irritable than sweat from tho ho chest chestor chestor chestor or arms arm S bands Sweat eat bands were then applied to the forehead prevent prevent- InS ing preventing nc the tho sweat eat from entering the eyes There was a no inflammation 1 This h proves prove sufficiently that sweat m eat Is the tbt chief factor In produCing conjunctivitis J which accompanies exposure ro to heat icu ICE WATER WATCH embers It has ha frequently been stated that workers exposed to high tem tem- temperatures tem temperatures developed de severe cramps after drinking Ico ice water A few experiments or of the subjects of ot these thes e peri- peri ments meats to drink Ice hater ateI after Arter about an nn hours hour's ex- ex ex exposure to high temperature and andt t Vito 0 of them In one experiment drank j a quart of Ice Ico water in less le than 15 minutes without ill 11 effects othe Cramps did not develop In any ot of the subjects at an any time On entering and lea leal ins tee file specially heated l chamber the report shows hows loss Ions of If weight v varied pith lIh the tho the heavier and losing lotice more than the light and thin one ing Notwithstanding this the tho lighter man as a rule could not endure the temperature conditions as long and complained more lowed followed of the exhaustion exhalation which fol- fol |