Finally the woman confessed that she had produced the temperature artificially by means of hot-water bottles, poultices, etc.
MacNab records a case of rheumatic fever in which the temperature was 111.4 degrees F.as indicated by two thermometers, one in the axilla and the other in the groin.

This high degree of temperature was maintained after death.

Before the Clinical Society of London, Teale reported a case in which, at different times, there were recorded temperatures from 110 degrees to 120 degrees F.in the mouth, rectum, and axilla.

According to a comment in the Lancet, there was no way that the patient could have artificially produced this temperature, and during convalescence the thermometer used registered normal as well as subnormal temperatures.

Caesar speaks of a girl of fifteen with enteric fever, whose temperature, on two occasions 110 degrees F., reached the limit of the mercury in the thermometer.
There have been instances mentioned in which, in order to escape duties, prisoners have artificially produced high temperatures, and the same has occasionally been observed among conscripts in the army or navy.