The principles and practice of medicine, designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine . avities, associ-ated as these i)rocesscs always are with suppuration and with more or lesssystemic contamination, the fever assumes a chjiracteristically intermittentor hectic type. For a large part of the day the patient is not only afebrile, 224: SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES. bat the temperature is subnormal. In the annexed two-hourly chart,from a case of chronic tuberculosis of the lungs, it will be seen that from10 P. M. to 8 or 12 A. M., the temperature continuously fell and reachedas
The principles and practice of medicine, designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine . avities, associ-ated as these i)rocesscs always are with suppuration and with more or lesssystemic contamination, the fever assumes a chjiracteristically intermittentor hectic type. For a large part of the day the patient is not only afebrile, 224: SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES. bat the temperature is subnormal. In the annexed two-hourly chart,from a case of chronic tuberculosis of the lungs, it will be seen that from10 P. M. to 8 or 12 A. M., the temperature continuously fell and reachedas low as 95°. A slow rise then took place through the late morning andearly afternoon hours and reached its maximum between 6 and 10 p. shown in the chart there were in the three days about forty-threehours of pyrexia and twenty-nine hours of apyrexia. The rapid fall of Jan. 12 Temp109 Resp. ?~^/^ ^\<~ i ? a 3- a ?? a J 3_: a : a a ; § : a ? a ? a- ^ • ^^ ; iu o.; 0,: & :*? •< : <:< ? ^ ^s. »< aT a. ;~ . *. a a ; a a ^ ? : a ^ a a; a *.: • ? a a a ; a. Chart XIII.—Three days. Chronic tuberculosis. the temperature in the early morning hours is usually associated withsweating. This hectic, as it is called, which is a typical fever of septicinfection, is met with when the process of cavity formation and softeningis advanced and extending. A continuous fever with remissions of not more than a degree, develop-ing in the course of pulmonary tuberculosis, is suggestive of acute pneu-monia. When a two-hourly chart is made, the remissions even in acutetuberculous pneumonia aiC usually well marked. A continued fever, such TUBERCULOSIS. 225 as is seen in the first week of typhoid, or in some cases of inflammationof the lung, is rare in tuberculosis. Sweating.—Drenching perspirations are common in phthisis and con-stitute one of the most distressing features of the disease. They occurusually at night, or at any time in the day when the patient sleeps. Theyma
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