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. 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.
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