Heat Exhaustion resembles an ordinary fainting spell, and is similarly treated. Unlike sunstroke this condition presents a cool moist skin.
Sunstroke.—Its symptoms of warning are headache and oppression, followed after a time by loss of consciousness; breathing labored; skin intensely hot; perspiration absent; the bladder and bowels sometimes discharge involuntarily.
Convey immediately to a cool place; remove clothing; place in cold bath, or wrap with sheets soaked in cold water, and keep wet with ice-water if possible. If this cannot be done, sponge thoroughly and continually the head and body, lumps of ice being rubbed over the chest and placed over the large blood-vessels in the arm-pits and groins.
Discontinue application of cold when consciousness returns, to be renewed only in case temperature rises above normal (98.9° F.) or insensibility returns.
Sore Feet.—If the feet begin to chafe, rub the socks with common soap where they come in contact with sore places. By rubbing the feet with hard soap before the march you may escape having sore feet. The feet should be washed every night and thoroughly dried. Blisters should not be opened, but have a thread run through.
TABLES OF WEIGHT, CAPACITY, ETC.
NUMBER OF POUNDS IN A BUSHEL.
| Oats | 32 |
| Beans | 60 |
| Onions | 57 |
| Castor beans | 46 |
| Barley | 48 |
| Peas | 60 |
| Timothy-seed | 45 |
| Flaxseed | 56 |
| Corn or rye | 56 |
| Clover-seed | 60 |
| Dried apples or peaches | 28 |
| Hemp-seed | 44 |
| Wheat | 60 |
| Potatoes | 60 |
| Salt | 50 |
| Bluegrass-seed | 14 |
NUMBER OF POUNDS IN A BARREL.
| Flour | 196 |
| Beef, pork, or fish | 200 |
| Salt | 280 |