HEAT AND COLD. 



and the cold in quantity. The two forces tend to modify 

 each other up to the line of demarkation, thereby im- 

 prisoning the cold within the member. 



Again we will discuss another danger subject to 

 the same law. On entering a very warm room after 

 being exposed to severe cold, the cold having been suffi- 

 ciently severe when without so as to penetrate the in- 

 ner side of body, then the heat from outer surface of 

 body tends to demarkate with the cold from within the 

 body. In consequence, a zone of action becomes es- 

 tablished between the two forces, thereby causing the 

 congealing of blood within the inner surface of body. 

 Cold being a uniting medium or force, acts on the par- 

 ticles of matter; heat contends on the outer surface for 

 equal rights in action on the properties of matter. Re- 

 sult: the cold is forced to act in its own zone or within, 

 and in consequence congeals the blood, causing con- 

 gestion, and where the cold is sufficient, death will fol- 

 low. 



Remedy in like Cases. When possible, there should 

 be heat applied inward and cold without the body, 

 thereby the heat from within would tend to drive out- 

 ward, and the cold on outer surface would have a ten- 

 dency to equilibrate, acting equal everywhere. The 

 result would be the cold would unite in a zone outward, 

 while heat would arrange in a zone inward. The re- 

 verse should be resorted to in the case of heat inward. 



This zone is only temporary in the organic body; 

 it is relative to the degree of constant heat applicable 

 to the organism, but the aggression of either of the 



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