On the temperature of the body as a means of diagnosis in phthisis and tuberculosis / by Sydney Ringer.

Date:
1865
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    it is borne in mind, that in many of the cases the bronchitis was very small in amount; and when it is further remembered that if different cases of phthisis, or different periods of the same case are compared, the elevation of the temperature is in no way propor- tionate to the amount of bronchitis that is present. Albumen.—Did the small amount of albumen in the urine of several of these patients indicate disease of the kidney, and, if so, was that disease sufficient to account for the elevation of the temperature ? To ascertain how far chronic Bright's disease is capable of affecting the temperature, observations were made on several patients suffering from that affection. In none was there any elevation of the temperature of the body. And it must be borne in mind that fever (that is, elevation of the tempera- ture due to any cause) is often productive of a small amount of albumen in the urine without there being any reason to suspect disease of the kidney. In these cases of phthisis in which albumen was discovered in the urine, the temperature was consi- derably elevated, as high, indeed, as that attained in scarlet and typhoid fevers, namely, from 103° to 105° Fah. Thus the author thinks he is justified in assuming that the albumen in the urine in these cases did not indicate sufficient disease of the kidney to cause ele- vation of the temperature. Ulceration of the intestines.—In none of the cases was the ulceration extensive, and in no case