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There is an account of a habit of prisoners of introducing tobacco into the rectum, thereby reducing the pulse to an alarming degree and insuring their exemption from labor.
In the Adelaide Hospital in Dublin there was a case in which the temperature in the vagina and groin registered from 120 degrees to 130 degrees, and one day it reached 130.8 degrees F.; the patient recovered.
Ormerod mentions a nervous and hysteric woman of thirty-two, a sufferer with acute rheumatism, whose temperature rose to 115.8 degrees F.She insisted on leaving the hospital when her temperature was still 104 degrees. Wunderlich mentions a case of tetanus in which the temperature rose to 46.40 degrees C.( 115.5 degrees F.), and before death it was as high as 44.75 degrees C.Obernier mentions 108 degrees F.
in typhoid fever. Kartulus speaks of a child of five, with typhoid fever, who at different times had temperatures of 107 degrees, 108 degrees, and 108.2 degrees F.; it finally recovered.
He also quotes a case of pyemia in a boy of seven, whose temperature rose to 107.6 degrees F.He also speaks of Wunderlich's case of remittent fever, in which the temperature reached 107.8 degrees F.Wilson Fox, in mentioning a case of rheumatic fever, says the temperature reached 110 degrees F. Philipson gives an account of a female servant of twenty-three who suffered from a neurosis which influenced the vasomotor nervous system, and caused hysteria associated with abnormal temperatures.
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