The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1900, Page 8

THE SUNDAY CALL : e————— TARKING THE N TEMPERATURE tak- Bill epy, straight into the And t t keep awake d then the t went track 1 saw 500 and Tith- * One ¥ =1 and s *- metimes queef ones een th i El stra pecies of huge, hairy spider South and Central America he scene was Santiago, Chile, grand religious festival was taki, y the principal cathedral. 1'2:‘ s a sea of drapery, flooded variety of illumination. thousand silver lamps were in laze and the acolytes were busy £ the 2000 tupers on the grand altar errant spider skipped into the and alarmed a woman, who The acolytes, or some of eround to learn the cause of ding w every oked * -k ing up to me, ready to tear me Uimb from limk - Well, the next thir knew I yas on a table and they were rubbing me, The rned her ¢ 0o de es, and my he track. After they I'd rested 1 felt like a be, and 1 went off into a 1 came out of that mad een limping witk rh t roast I walk e in three months n the leg bake.” was given more than the Wi yet this human be 00 degrees for over rau Roasted Jim" average heat botls at 21 which is 280 degrees was baked up to hour and yet his flesh’ was not burned s are the results human bakeovens Since all great inventic 11 beginnings, of sm the commotion, and one of the naked lights they carried came In contact with the drapery of a colossal figure of the Virgin. A fey minutes later the vast cathedral was a raging-furnace, in which were being consumed more than 2000 per- sons—the elite of Santiago society. Recently the ancient Swan Hotel in Ipswich, England, was destroyed by a fire which originated through rats gnaw- ing lucifer matches. The sudden appearance of a hilarious mouse among the occupants of the gal- lery of the Victoria Theater, West- minster, boxing night, 1858, started a panic which resulted in the death of fif- teen people. A mongrel cur strayed on the Bt. Leger course some year ago just as the fleld swept by. Seven horses came down in a heap and of the jockeys who were rid- - have merely evoluted mustard and fla from the homely eed plasters or the heat- one knows how ef- cations of these. 00d bid household remedies viation of pain. They are £0od, but sclence wanted some- better, and tiWe demand has at last supplied by these ovens, In which man beings can be baked alive. The greate difficulty encountered in applying hot air at high ten avoid actually cooking the fle thing been permture is to h of the pa- tient. O rily if hot , full of mois- ture a wentilated, is appited to living human flesh there is gr danger of burning. Dr at in the form of heated ing them five were hurt, three seriously. To win a bet of twopence, a little pit- . employed at the Ferndale colliery in the Rhonda Valléy, picked the lock of his safety lamp with an ordinary hairpin. He himself, with nearly 200 of his mates, perished in the explosion which followed. At Shoeburyness, fifteen years ago, ac- cording to an article appearing the New York Press, Colonel Francls Lyon invented a new kind of sensitive fuse for big caliber shells and invited several gunnery experts to be present at the trials.. On the night prior to the day on which the experiments were to . be made he locked the fuses in a shed in which were some fowls. The chickens started scratching, as is their wont, and the dust flew up and settled on the threads of the screws of the fuses. When, next morning the gunner started to perimenting. magnesia would st heat without contact of the body o be resting upon it. magnesia one can t grees without heing s honor cf ins However, the credit is generally given to Mr. three large human bakeries ‘Sprague Hospita of hot air sponsible for a new nomenclature. patients are baked the process Is c A LEG BAKE" Fom= RHEUMATISM metal or other’substances is equally dan- gerous if applied locally. The riddle was solved after years of ex- It found that fibrous nd h degrees of becoming too hot for the one who might On a sheet of fibrous heat up to 400 de- orched. There are several clalmants for the nting the human bakeoven. N. Y. The are called after this inventor In fact, he Is re- word in medical ¢ hospitals where Sprague of Rochester, yiinder: In many pragueing.” The bakeovens for human beings are divided into three forms—for the entire body, for the arms or legs and for tRe local application of heat. The principle construction of ail the -machines is practically the same. The most striking difference is in the body machine, which is naturally larger and more complex, having an extension for the head. It consists of three metal cylinders sep- arated by spaces of one inch and one and one-half inches respectively. They are open at the ends from the walls of the machine. g The outer cylinder is of sheet copper, nickel plated and lined with asbestos to prevent external radiation of heat. It s ot DA AT ETETA DA RO A D E DT AT ATATA A AR DR AR SA ISR SASQ der Caused 2 LOSS OF Two Thousand hives. fix one to a live shell, the missile ex- ploded, killing the operator, the inventor | and five other persons. Burrowing rabbits so weakened the foundation of «a tall chimney at Cleck- heaton, Yorkshire, that it fell, crushing to death fifteen people. A gypsy boy, son of one of a party of hop-pickers, drank of a Kentish spring while suffering from tvphold fever. The spring happened to be one of several from which Maidstone drew its water supply and a terrible . epidemic, causing ths deaths of scores of the inhabitants, was the result. The ship Esperanza was cast away on the coast of Chile through a tiny toddler of § meddling with the compasses. She had on board ninety-seven persons and all but eleven perished. Among the saved was the innocent cause of the terrible catastrophe separated from the middle or steel cylin- der by a space connected with three fun- nels at the top, which act as flues for a series of Bunsen burners underneath the apparatus. These funnels, besides serving the func- tlon of flues, carry off the products of combustion while the body Is being baked. Within the sheet steel cylinder is another space one inch and a half in width, which separates it from the third cylinder, which is of brass, and hds numercus circular perforations to allow the air that is heat- ed by radiation to be sent in tiny jets over the occupant of the oven. infcally called the nected with three ke funnels The central space—tec circulating jacket—is co tubes situatéd in th at the top, these tu ing the heated alr to escape, thus regulating the temper- ature and the dryness of the atmosphere fn the appurate At the lower part of the central space iv Is places z down and between the tunes sucking up fresh air from the room to replace the heated and moistened at- mosphere driven cut at the top of the J In this wa therc is con t ‘the prass perforated cylinder, ‘which forms the lining of the treatment cham- ber, is covered by ribs of cork, running lengthwise, at intervals of one inch apart, TAKING A KNEE BAKE" ForR STIEF KNEE JoiNTS These cork ribs prevent the patlent’s body or hands from coming in contact with the hot cylinder, which would burn the flesh. The patient lies, as has been sald, upon a mat of fibrous magnesia, which is separated from the steel below by a layer of asbestos. At either end of the cylinder and level with the bottom are extensions of wood for the head and lower limbs to rest upon. The cylinders are mounted on massive metal legs. The wooden extensions are only on the body apparatus, and the leg and arm machines difter also In having at one end a door of glass and metal, which will allow the nurse to see the position of the inclosed limb. The machines are so arranged that they may be adjusted at any angle. Before a patlent is baked the tempera- ture, pulse and respiration are examined and a thorough physical test is madfs. It 1t be found that the condition of the heart [: ngs will not justify high degree: heat a low temperature is ordered vice a. The pa dry cloths before oven; the ma head, however, being le e inclosed heavy canvas, W is coprected with the machine by alr-tig fastenings; the shoulders are also case car d the rest in a species of vestibule which allows free play to the heated air. A trained nurse is i stant attend- he tem are carefully watched 1 ana elshty degrees is the average heat appiied it is endured about an hour In certa however, much I temperatures are required. In 50 degrees to 400 deg: conditions from Fahrerheit are necessary. ces is not so very pi ) be literally roa high a body seems t blood at 330 degrees seems actually to be ng boiling and can be felt to be coursing through the veins at racehorse speed The heart thumps wildly, or else seems to have disappeared altogether. Bags of fce are constantly applied to the head ‘Wwhen these degrees of heat are admm- istered. Sips of ice water are given from time to time. A very remarkable fact in conmection 1s considerec brings on the c in much more rapidly t would. The arm and leg ov out at the Southerr %ttendant helped a man place his leg | Bridget put in Jocosely. He was the “k * bake, b knee only that needed wag so intense th: spiration dripped all he sald s called heat was turned which is very often given In the knee bake. A young man who was g a leg bake managed to fish out his voice from the sea —_——— Singer and Jts Uses. late more palatable sage and catnip In hes a bit of root ginger chew- ed slo Il remove the pain and make one comfortable can be ¢ sulted. all the good effects of alcoholia stimulants can be secured from ginger, < But the so-called ginger habit has to be guarded against. So has the cayenne pep- per habit,