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. 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.
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