Clinical medicine; a manual for the use of students and junior practitioners.

  • Bury, Judson Sykes.
Date:
1894
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    (see Fig. 51) within a day or two. Occasionally the ascent is gradual and the acme is reached by a series of oscillations extending over three FlQ. 51.—Boy aged 2J, admitted to Hospital with Dropsy and Albuminuria following Scarlet Fever. On the fifth day he began to cough, and at night the thermometer registered 104.4°. Two days later physical signs of Pneumonia were detected at left base. The crisis occurred on the sixth day of the attack. (On this chart each division represents half a day.) or more days; this usually happens in typhoid fever and in tuber- culosis, and in a slower and more irregular manner in acute rheumatism, pleurisy and pericarditis. The ascent in typhoid is usually stated to be characterised by a rise each evening of two degrees with a morning Fig. 52. Pneumonia of right upper lobe Pneumonia of left upper lobe in a boy aged 6. in a girl aged 11. In both cases defervescence by lysis, the temperature becoming normal about the eighth day. fall of one degree, a temperature of 103° to 1040 F. being reached about the fifth day; but such a course is by no means constant, and