Hartshorn was used to treat insect bites, sunstroke, stye, and snakebites. The inmates suffered from lack of fresh water, sunstroke, marsh fever, and dysentery. Men collapsed of sunstroke and heat exhaustion. Heat exhaustion, sunstroke, and disease took a heavy toll of human life. On reaching Chile he suffered from sunstroke and was hospitalised. He was invalided back to Britain in November 1860 with fever, sunstroke and ear problems. The parents did mistake a fever for sunstroke. Durrance is blinded by sunstroke and invalided. A soldier fainted off his horse from sunstroke and had to be dealt with. They wound long bright scarfs around their helms to ward off sunstroke. However, her plan was interrupted when Nathanael died suddenly on June 19, 1786 of sunstroke. She died of a sunstroke while Przhevalsky was on an expedition. When he inquires two days later, he learns that Carnehan has died of sunstroke. Booth also suffered a sunstroke and fell out of a tree. Many died as a result of sunstroke and lack of water.