Sunstroke

Aconite: not to be used with a weak heart. Alcohol: is afterwards always a poison. Ammonia: for its diaphoretic action. Amyl Nitrite. Apomorphine: one-sixteenth grn. at once counteracts symptoms. Artificial Respiration. Belladonna. Bleeding: in extreme venous congestion. Brandy: in small doses in collapse. Camphor. Chloroform: in convulsions. Digitalis: to stimulate heart. Ergot: by the mouth or subcutaneously. Gelsemium. Hot baths (105°—110° F.), or hot bottles or bricks, in heat exhaustion, and in collapse. Ice: application to chest, back, and abdomen, as quickly as po ible, in thermic fever, and to reduce temperature; ice drinks as well. Leeches. Nitroglycerin. Pota ium Bromide to relieve the delirium. Quinine: in thermic fever. Scutellar i a. Tea: cold, as beverage instead of alcoholic drinks. Tonics: during convalescence. Venesection: best treatment if face be cyanosed and heart laboring and if meningitis threaten after thermic fever (Hare). Veratrum Viride. Water: cold affusion. Wet Sheet: where the breathing is steady; otherwise cold douche.