Some points about the temperature and course of infective endocarditis / by Herbert French.

  • French, Herbert Stanley, 1875-1951.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Some points about the temperature and course of infective endocarditis / by Herbert French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of endocarditis are slight, and recover soon, and others are very- severe, and die soon, a third group are on the border-line between the two, and may continue doubtful as to their prognosis for weeks and months ; and may even recover when they seemed certainly to have fungating endocarditis. (5.) That pyrexia in the ordinary sense is not necessarily present although the patient is suffering from fungating endo- carditis ; in which connection it is most important to remember that the natural body temperature in cases of old valvular heart- disease may be as low as 96-6° F., so that what may be normal temperatures in normal subjects may be actual pyrexia in them.