PREVENTION OF SUNSTROKE.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 145, 19 November 1874, Page 3

PREVENTION OF SUNSTROKE.

As the hot season is rapidly approaching (says the Syracuse Journal,) we give the following specific for sunstroke which may save from illness or death many whose occupation compels them to he in the field or in the street. About a year since I saw in a newspaper an account of a case of sunstroke, written by the party himself. After suffering a long time from the attack, and having to a considerable degree recovered, he experienced considerable suffering even from the rays of the moon. This led him to reflect that it was not altogether the heat of the sun that produced prostration. After much research he discovered that the injury came from the chemical ray, and not from the heat ray. He was guided to this by observing the fact that a photograph could not be taken through a hollow glass. Accordingly he lined his hat with two linings—one of orange yellow to arrest the chemical ray, and one of green to arrest the heat ray. Thus prepared, he went where the rays of the sun were most intense with perfect impunity. It is well known that the negro is seldom sunstruck. The colour of his skin over the skull being of the orange yellow may assist in accounting for the fact. I practised upon this suggestion all last summer, lined my hat with green and orange-yellow paper, and had confidence enough in the truth of the theory to neglect my umbrella, which I had never done before. 1 mentioned it to many who tried it also, and in many cases that came under my observation, they uniformly asserted that the oppressive heat of the sun upon the head was much relieved.