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any kind, is felt by the sick man. Even in the more serious 
n the course of my experiments the highest temperature 
that I found was that of 99°°7 Fah. At this temperature I felt 
n. 
During the hottest weather, I was able, by the prolonged use 
of the shower bath, to reduce my temperature to 97 7. If, 
while at or about this temperature, I went into the street in the 
middle of a very hot day, the greatness of the heat was plainly 
It would thus ap fae the discomfort we feel in hot 
Weather is not from the impression of heat on the surface, but 
or rather, it is only when the heat of the whole body has risen 
ah. that a check of the surface cooling begins to be 
Very great elevations of temperature have been observed in 
“i hat in all such cases the heat 
of the body rises above 100° Fah. before alarming symptoms 
manifest themselves, I think highly probable. Accurate ther- 
mometric examinations of mild cases of sun stroke an of per- 
AM. Jour. Scr —Tarap Seniss, Vor. II, No. 11.—Nov., 1871. 
