Heat Stroke

In sweltering Manhattan last week the feet of one Daniel Long, 66 and unwell, stumbled under him. As the dirty buildings slowly swayed in his drowsy mind, his knees buckled and, panting like an asthmatic old dog, he fell in a heat stroke. Similar strokes downed hundreds throughout the nation during the last, hot fortnight. But old Dan Long's was unique. When attendants of Bellevue Hospital took his rectal temperature, routine procedure in cases of heat stroke, they found it to be 109.8DEG F., highest in that vast old hospital's records.

Children suffering from spinal meningitis occasionally develop a temperature of 111-o F. But not even children, whose normal temperatures are higher than temperatures of normal adults, can live very long with 111-o F. fever, or even with 109.8DEG F. To save the life of a heat victim quick measures are essential. Dan Long got them--ice packs to remove the body heat which his deranged system could not radiate; oxygen for his thickened blood; cold salty water to replace the sweat he had lost. In a few hours record-breaking Dan Long's temperature read a normal 98.6DEG F.

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