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or soap, or tickle the throat with anything that is handiest. 

 Then for an adult, if it can be got, give fifteen grains of 

 sulphate of zinc in a little water ; to a young person half 

 the quantity; to an infant a teaspoonful of ipecacuanha 

 wine. After vomiting, give plenty of very strong coffee, 

 put a mustard plaster round the calf of each leg, and if 

 cold and sinking give spirits and water. Get medical help. 

 Keep the patient roused till the effect has passed off by 

 beating the soles of the feet, walking, or dashing cold 

 water on the face. Remember that if the patient goes to 

 sleep at this stage it is the sleep of death. 



SINSTROKE. When the temperature rises over 100 

 degrees, and the weather is moist, care is necessary to 

 prevent the exhausting effects of so great a heat. Temper- 

 ance in living is of the first importance in this respect not 

 temperance in eating and drinking only, but in the clothing 

 worn, in government of the temper, &c. As means of 

 prevention, it is advisable to wear head-coverings that, 

 while light, give shade and air to the head and neck. For 

 these purposes the colonial shell-hat, and calico or other 

 pngaree attachments, are good. Loose clothing should be 

 worn, and of the lightest possible colour. The symptoms 

 of an attack are sharp pains in the head and giddiness, and 

 unless the patient is of very strong nerve, and can get 

 under shade at once, he falls to the ground insensible the 

 victim of over-heated blood. To cool the temperature of 

 the body, by applying water all over, and by exposing as 

 much of the body to the coolest possible currents of air, are 

 means of the first consideration. Bleeding is often effective, 

 and the application of mustard poultice to the back of the 

 neck, rubbing the spine with spirits, ammonia, or turpen- 

 tine, are all aids towards recovering the patient. Seme- 

 times a man exposed to the direct rays of the sun is struck 

 down without any warning ; and sometimes the high 

 temperature of the atmosphere under cover, or at night, 

 especially if the air be fouled by defective ventilation, may 

 induce symptoms of sunstroke. Whatever checks per- 

 spiration, whatever induces nerve-weariness, or emtarrasses 

 the normal working of the organic system, powerfully 

 predisposes to heat fever, or apoplexy. 



