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...Centro in California's Imperial Valley the temperature last week rose to 122° F. Stepping out of doors was like walking into a blast furnace's draft. Snakes and lizards, whose muscles stiffen with rigor caloris at 104??, died. But insects, which can function at 147°, and animals, with a system of maintaining body temperatures at normal regardless of climate, pursued their ordinary activities, as did the men, women and children of El Centro. Women dressed in organdie; men went without coats. Everyone wore hats to prevent sunstroke. But of heat stroke there was no fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hot Times | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...long as a man can easily keep his internal body temperature at 98.6° he is comfortable. In illness he can develop a "low" temperature of 102° and suffer no appreciable harm. A prolonged ''high'' temperature of 105° is usually fatal. External temperature of 104?? produces heat strokes if the individual's heat control system fails to operate efficiently. American Radiator Co., which has gone into temperature control scientifically, finds that a normal human being in good health can stand 157° with 15% humidity up to 45 minutes. Thereafter the man becomes irritable, restless and drowsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hot Times | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Typhus fever usually manifests itself by a sudden chill and a rise of body temperature to 104?? or 105° F. Temperature remains at that exhausting height for 13 or 14 days. Until the ninth day the victim usually is nauseated, has wracking headache. About the ninth day the headache fades, delirium ensues. The patient is apt to be wild and active, or he may be capable of only low, incoherent mutterings. He cannot sleep; he trembles constantly; he is deeply prostrated. If he is to die, death ensues usually between the ninth and twelfth days. Otherwise on the 13th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Typhus Vaccine | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...gave temporary relief to people suffering from asthma, Dr. Samuel Maurice Feinberg & associates of Chicago tried out artificial fevers on their asthmatic patients, got good results. Their method is to anoint the patient thoroughly, wrap him in blankets and electric heating pads, cook him for about eight hours at 104?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. at New Orleans | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

France. Temperatures rose to 104?? in Paris, 122° at St. Etienne. Paris meteorologists reported dust from the Sahara in the air. Mannequins from the dress houses strolled along the Champs Elysees in backless dresses. Victim of sunstroke: Etienne Clementel, author, senator, one-time Minister of Colonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: ''American Heat | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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