Word: heat
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Jolted Strategy. Dick Nixon likes to say that what a political candidate needs most, and is least likely to find in the heat of campaigning, is time to think. To get time to think in 1960, he set aside the fortnight preceding the opening of the Republican Convention in Chicago. With his staff protecting him from intrusions, he spent most of the time at his fieldstone house in the Wesley Heights section of Washington ? and he found plenty to think about, more than he had expected. Jack Kennedy's choice of Lyndon Johnson as his Democratic running mate jolted...
...Heat Stroke. The body temperature soars to 106° or higher; sweating stops and leaves the skin hot, dry and flushed. Warning signs include fever, headache, restlessness, thirst, and absence of sweating. Treatment is drastic, and the physician must not leave it to the nurses. Most effective is to put the patient in an ice bath until the rectal temperature drops to 101°. If shock sets in, the patient will need intravenous fluids, plasma and drugs to boost the blood pressure. Mortality ranges from...
...Heat Cramps. The acute form of salt depletion, marked by fatigue, dizziness, headache and muscle pain, leading to cramps from contraction of the belly muscles. The remedy: salt (given intravenously if the patient cannot swallow enough). The milder and more insidious chronic salt depletion shows the same signs, but sometimes in such vague form as to be mistaken for malingering or hypochondria. Salt tablets (but only for those who really sweat excessively) will prevent or cure...
...Prickly Heat. Usually trivial, but may be incapacitating if it affects large areas or becomes infected. Prevention: wear loose, well-ventilated clothes, bathe often with little soap. Remedy: keep in a cool, dry place. (Creams, ointments and powders may do more harm than good...
...Heat Exhaustion. One severe form results from spending several months in hot, moist climates. Marked by fatigue, headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations and-paradoxically-inability to sweat, except on the face, palms and soles. Moving back to a temperate climate (or into air-conditioned quarters) is the answer, but the sweating mechanism may be knocked out for months, leaving continued danger of heat stroke...