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On the evening of July 9th her temperature was 112 degrees F.; on the 16th, it was 111 degrees; on the 18th, 112 degrees; on the 24th, 117 degrees (axilla); on the 28th, in the left axilla it was 117 degrees, in the right axilla, 114 degrees, and in the mouth, 112 degrees; on the 29th, it was 115 degrees in the right axilla, 110 degrees in the left axilla, and 116 degrees in the mouth The patient was discharged the following September.
Steel of Manchester speaks of a hysteric female of twenty, whose temperature was 116.4 degrees.
Mahomed mentions a hysteric woman of twenty-two at Guy's Hospital, London, with phthisis of the left lung, associated with marked hectic fevers.
Having registered the limit of the ordinary thermometers, the physicians procured one with a scale reaching to 130 degrees F.She objected to using the large thermometers, saying they were "horse thermometers." On October 15, 1879, however, they succeeded in obtaining a temperature of 128 degrees F.with the large thermometer.
In March of the following year she died, and the necropsy revealed nothing indicative of a cause for these enormous temperatures.
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