Typhoid fever and typhus fever . e the average morning level is from 39°to 40° C, and the evening level up to ° C. and above. Of itself it is of grave omen if with a hightemperature but slight morningremissions take place, especiallyif the temperature remains un-influenced in spite of the em-ployment of cold baths or otherantipyretic treatment (Fig. 14).If the temperature be especiallyhigh, possible complicationsshould be carefully looked conditions, pneumonia,and secondary meningitis areespecially to be kept in mind. At times the severe contin-ued fever is interrupted by oneor
Typhoid fever and typhus fever . e the average morning level is from 39°to 40° C, and the evening level up to ° C. and above. Of itself it is of grave omen if with a hightemperature but slight morningremissions take place, especiallyif the temperature remains un-influenced in spite of the em-ployment of cold baths or otherantipyretic treatment (Fig. 14).If the temperature be especiallyhigh, possible complicationsshould be carefully looked conditions, pneumonia,and secondary meningitis areespecially to be kept in mind. At times the severe contin-ued fever is interrupted by oneor more marked temperature then declines suddenly, more frequently during the daythan during the night, often falling several degrees, and not rarelyfalling far below the normal. Marked simultaneous diminution inthe size of the pulse, with considerable increase in its frequency,stamps this occurrence as true collapse (Fig. 23). Less commonly, andthen especially in individuals between the ages of twenty-five and. Fig. 14.—Temperature-curve from a case of ty-phoid fever in a man, twenty-two years old. Un-usually severe course without special complica-tions. Death on the fourteenth day of the disease. SYMPTOMS AND COMPLICATIONS. 145 thirty years, not less marked variations in the curves occur temporarilywithout obvious cause, but unattended with corresponding diminution intension and size of the pulse and without increase in its interruptions of the high continued fever, in other respects alsonot attended withalarming symptoms,and which are desig-nated pseudocollapse,I have observed inseveral cases in whichthere were two orthree elevations daily(Fig. 15). The explanation ofthis remarkable, andfrom the prognosticstandpoint generallyindifferent, occurrencewill long remain ob-scure. In the presence ofsuch pseudocollapse,however, the progno-sis should be guardedif the stage of steepcurves does not soonthereafter begin or theintermissions do notactual
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