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. She was suspected of fraud, and was
closely watched in Guy's Hospital, but never, in the slightest
way, was she detected in using artificial means to elevate the
temperature record.
In cases of insolation it is not at all unusual to see a patient
whose temperature cannot be registered by an ordinary
thermometer. Any one who has been resident at a hospital in which
heat-cases are received in the summer will substantiate this. At
the Emergency Hospital in Washington, during recent years,
several cases have been brought in which the temperatures were
above the ordinary registering point of the hospital
thermometers, and one of the most extraordinary cases recovered.
At a meeting of the Association of American Physicians in 1895,
Jacobi of New York reported a case of hyperthermy reaching 148
degrees F.
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