Temperature in cholera / by Dr. L. Guterbock, Superintending Physician of Cholera Hospital, No. 2, Berlin ; translated and abridged for the 'Glasgow Medical Journal' by J.B. Russell.

  • Güterbock, Ludwig, 1814-1895.
Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: Temperature in cholera / by Dr. L. Guterbock, Superintending Physician of Cholera Hospital, No. 2, Berlin ; translated and abridged for the 'Glasgow Medical Journal' by J.B. Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cooling of the parts of the body attached to the trunk (head, extremities), such as is found in hardly any other disease. 2. In the algide stage of cholera the temperature of the apertures of the trunk (vagina and rectum) is the highest (measureable) in any part of the body, and alone can determine the true temperature of the entire body. 3. In the algide stage, in most cases, whether they end in death or recovery, the internal temperature of the body is raised, seldomer normal, seldomest of all lowered. The cause of this difference is not as yet apparent in the patho- logical appearances during life, or in those found after death. 4. In the algide stage, the temperature of the entire body usually rises with the approach of death, and up to its occur- rence. No elevation after it seems to take place. Yet cases also occur in which the death-struggle produces no rise in tem- perature, without the cause of this anomaly being discoverable. 5. With the commencement of uncomplicated reaction no rise of temperature occurs, but much more usually a slight cooling of the inner parts of the body, while the outer become warmer. 6. In cases of protracted reaction (prolonged asphyxia), the temperature of the entire body usually sinks below the normal. 7. The inflammatory sequelae imply, not always, but still in the great proportion of cases, a decided rise of the temperature of the entire body. 8. During complete convalescence an abnormally elevated temperature is frequently observed, without a pathological cause sufficient to account for it being apparent.