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Show IIIOH TEMPEnATUnE. IIpw II AReels lbs MorUllty or elites "un-.rln from Knn.lroke, It will not now be difficult to understand un-derstand In what manner high, temperature temper-ature affect the public health of largt cltle. Evidently In the direct action ot heat upon tho human body wo ban tbo most powerful agency In tho production pro-duction of our great summer mortal Ity. While sunstroke represent tin maximum direct offset ot solar heat upon the human subject, (ho largo In. crease of deaths from wasting chronlt disease and diarrhoea! affections, r chlldron under one year of ago ant persons upward of 70 years of ago shows the terrible effects of the pro vailing Intense heat ot summer upoi all who aro debilitated by dlsoise 01 ago and thereby havo their "bcat-rg ulatlng power" diminished. Tbo fac has been established by repeated experiment ex-periment that when solar or artlflcIV heat U continually applied to tho anl mat the temperature of u body wll gradually rlso until all of the com pensatlng or heat-regulating agcnclei tall to preserve tho equilibrium, and tho temperature reaches a point at which death take place from actua. combustion. In general, a temperature tempera-ture of 10? decrees V. Id man would bo regarded as Indicating an unfavorable unfavora-ble termination of any dlsoase. In persons suffering from sunstroke thi tempernturo often range from 108 do-grees do-grees i". to 110 degree P., tho hlghol temperature appearing Just before fatal termination. Popular Sclenci Monthly. |