Typhoid fever and typhus fever . rvescence strikingly recalls what occurs during theinitial stage. The abruptness and rapidity with which the fever risesare usually paralleled by the completeness with which the temperaturefalls to or below the normal within a few hours or days. It is not atall a rare occurrence for the temperature to fall at one drop, usuallyduring the night, from a considerable height—40° and above—to 37°or even less (Fig. 53). More frequently this fall is interrupted by atemporary rise in the curve, the temperature at first sinking to °or 38°, and then, toward evening, m
Typhoid fever and typhus fever . rvescence strikingly recalls what occurs during theinitial stage. The abruptness and rapidity with which the fever risesare usually paralleled by the completeness with which the temperaturefalls to or below the normal within a few hours or days. It is not atall a rare occurrence for the temperature to fall at one drop, usuallyduring the night, from a considerable height—40° and above—to 37°or even less (Fig. 53). More frequently this fall is interrupted by atemporary rise in the curve, the temperature at first sinking to °or 38°, and then, toward evening, mounting 1° or ° before itsfinal return to the normal, where it then persists practically withoutinterruption. With almost equal frequency, jnstead of this single interruption,the fall of the temperature may present a step-like curve extending SYMPTOMATOLOG Y. 517 over from three to four days (compare Fig. 61), while an even moregradual ending of the curve by distinct lysis is much rarer (Fig. 54) Day of the Fig. 51.—Woman, thirty-three years old. Very severe, uncomplicated case with great cardiacweakness. Marked precritical rise in the temperature. The tendency to marked intermission during the period of defer-vescence, which is almost typical of typhoid fever, is very slight in Day of the disease. Day of the disease.
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