Medicine.

Date:
[1919?]
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Credit: Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    What are the Terms applied to the Different Degrees of Temperature 1 1. Collapse temperatures : below 96'8° F. 2. Subnormal temperatures : between 96 8° and 98° F. 3. Normal temperatures : 98 4° or 98’6° F. 4. Subfebrile temperatures : 99° to 101° F. 'j d 5. Moderately febrile temperatures : 101° to 1035° F. -£ 6. Highly febrile temperatures : 103 5° to 105° F. Jo? 7. Hyperpyrexia : above 105° F. What are the Different Types of Fever ? 1. Continued fever : in which the temperature is per¬ sistently above normal, and has comparatively slight daily fluctuations. 2. Remittent fever : in which, though the temperature never falls to normal, the morning temperature approaches it, and the daily fluctuation is considerable. 3. Intermittent fever : in which, for some part of each period of twenty-four hours, the temperature is normal or subnormal. What is the Typhoid State ? A condition occurring in the later stages of the graver acute infections. Describe its Characteristic Symptoms. There is marked prostration, frequently with tremor or subsultus tendinum ; the patient tends to sink to the foot of the bed ; delirium is of a low, muttering type, or there may be a semi-comatose condition with dilated pupils (coma vigil); the tongue is dry, brown, and tremulous , the lips and teeth are coated with sordes ; and the pulse is rapid and soft. Picking at the bedclothes (carphologia) is a sign of bad omen.