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Title: A practical treatise on medical diagnosis for students and physicians
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Musser, John Herr, 1856-1912 Pancoast, Henry
Subjects: Diagnosis Diagnosis, Radioscopic Diagnosis
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York : Lea
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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754 THE INFECTIONS. Enlargement of the spleen is a very constant symptom. It ma fagdetected at the onset, increases up to the height of the fever, sub fosduring convalescence, but recurs during a relapse. It covers a percusi Barea in the left hypochondrium of four to eight finger-breadths. The temperature-curve, when not modified by treatment, sho^gradual ascent during the first four or five days of the disease, with nlrn-ing remissions. The temperature rises a degree or two in the ev(iD£and falls half a degree or a degree in the morning. This step-ladascent is characteristic. By the end of a week a temperature of 1104°, or 105° F. is reached, and it remains continuously high,slight morning remissions, during the second and less frequentlying the third week. In the third or fourth week the morning fatemperature gradually becomes greater, and by the end of the wedlthetemperature sinks below the normal in the morning. The temperature in mild cases may never rise above 103° F. aifnyt

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