Summer Mortality in the Cities of the United States: Paper Read Before the New York Academy of Medicine, June 17th, 1869 (Classic Reprint) 9781397316639

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Автор: Rogers Stephen
Название: Summer Mortality in the Cities of the United States: Paper Read Before the New York Academy of Medicine, June 17th, 1869 (Classic Reprint)
ISBN: 9781397316639
Издательство: Forgotten Books
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1397316632
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 26
Вес: 0.05 кг.
Дата издания: 12.02.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 0.13 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Excerpt from Summer Mortality in the Cities of the United States: Paper Read Before the New York Academy of Medicine, June 17th, 1869

The idea advocated by one of the gentlemen who participated in the discussion had upon this paper, that the phenomena of sunstroke are to be accounted for by the sudden suspension of the process of elimination of effete and poisonous material by the skin, is a totally untenable one, for the following reasons - First, Cases of sunstroke are not always preceded by a drying up of the skin; and hence in such cases there is no even probable reason for supposing that elimination of poison from the blood has been sus pended, so far as the skin is concerned Second, The time between the dry ing of the skin and the occurrence of the grave symptoms of the disease is, in a great proportion of cases, too short to render it at all probable that ar rested elimination is the cause of those symptoms. Such rapidity has no analogue in the known suspension of the eliminating function of any organ of the body, if we except the lungs. Third, Physiological experiments upon the lower animals, and thermometric observations upon the human Vlctims of sunstroke, suffice to Show that the overheating of the blood and tissues of the body is the real cause of the phenomena of this affection. The argument, therefore, that to prevent sunstroke perspiration must be promoted by heavily clothing the person, even in tropical temperatures, has no pathological support, and is directly contradicted by the most extended observation, as well as by the teachings of natural history. If it were true, as this argument assumes, that the animal body is protected from solar and atmospheric heat by covering it, is it probable that the Creator would have made it a characteristic of tropical animals that they have little or no hairy covering? And in the temperate zone, would He have ordered that the thick and heavy fur and hair covering possessed by its animals in winter should fall off at the approach of summer, leaving the skin comparatively nearly naked during the heated months? We think no reﬂecting person can long entertain such views of the pathology of sunstroke, nor of the inﬂu ence of heavy clothing in protecting from it. The example given, on the occasion of the discussion, of the heavy dress of the inhabitants of the steppes of Russia, has certainly very little weight in the argument for while these people have but comparatively few hot days in the year, they occur during a period in which the atmosphere is extremely dry, so that evapora tion of the perspiration and consequent cooling is rapid, even though the body he thickly covered.

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Summer Mortality in the Cities of the United States: Paper Read Before the New York Academy of Medicine, June 17th, 1869 (Classic Reprint), Rogers Stephen