Intermittent Fever in Pneumonia
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bronchial breathing were present, and the diagnosis of lobar pneumonia was made. The pulse at the time was 9? p. m. Next morning the patient's temperature was 98.6? F., and the pulse rate 52. For the next six days the temperature was of the same type, viz., 102.5? F. in the evenings, and 98.5? F. in the mornings, with corresponding changes in the pulse rate. Crisis occurred on the seventh day, with profuse perspiration, and the temperature dropped to 96? F., with a pulse rate of 48. The Patient made an uninterrupted recovery. The pulse rate to-day is 56 p. m. The pulse: respiration rate throughout was as 2:1. A. more detailed temperature chart could not be kept, owing to want of skilled attendance. Cases of lobar Pneumonia with such a fluctuating temperature chart must surely be very uncommon.?Yours, etc.. VENILAL N. MODI, m.b , b.s.
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