How Sun-Stroke Affects Men
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HOW SUN-STROKE AFFECTS MEN—
The general impression is that death by sun-stroke is very painful, but the contrary would seem to be the fact, judging from the following account of the effect of such a visitation, given by General Sir C. J. Napier. He experienced an attack when in the Scinde, when the thermometer, according to Gen. N. himself, was of as much use to him as it would have been to a boiling lobster, and wrote as follows to one of his daughters: "The sun-stroke is a staggerer; yet my hope is to die of one, for never can death come in an easier shape. I was just deadly sleepy; it was deadly had I been left alone; but the only feeling of the transition would have been a tiredness, like that experienced at being suddenly waked up before time. This was to a degree almost to be called painful; then came a pleasant drowsiness, with anger that the doctors would not let me sleep. Were it not for others, would that my horn had been sounded—so easy, so delightful I may say, was the approach of death." This resembles the accounts that have been given by men who have been saved from freezing to death, after having got far down into the dark valley; so that the excess of heat and cold produces precisely the same effects.