Excerpt from Chicago Medical Review, Vol. 2: July 5, 1880 In mild cases bismuth and paregoric are used with good results. A milk diet seems to agree best With some patients; others do as well upon beef ex tracts. Many severe cases of sunstroke have been brought: in during the past few days. They are mostly of the cardiac variety (of Reynolds); and the chief indica tion, in addition to the reduction of temperature by cold douches and ice to the head, is to support the heart's action. This is done by free hypodermics of whiskey and ammonia and in the worst cases by the application of the electric current to the pneumo-z gastric. This treatment is usually successful. The following case has excited some interest among the staff of the hospital, illustrating as it does the great efficacy of transfusion of blood in extreme cases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.