TUNEVALL AND LINDNER 



MARROW: I will describe two clinical observations. An in- 

 fant with considerable cold exposure, due to drunkenness of 

 the parents, was brought into the hospital, failed to respond 

 to massive antibiotic therapy, and the youngster died with peri- 

 tonitis, which would be exactly parallel to your experiments 

 taken over into a human, although the degree of lowering of 

 body temperature, we do not know. The parents were inebriated 

 to the point of anesthesia for a period of a couple of days, so 

 we don't know how long the youngster was hypothermic. We 

 have had six hypothermic, or, let's say, "sub- normal tempera- 

 ture" individuals below the age of three months. The first two 

 were treated conventionally with massive doses of penicilin, 

 both dying within the third or fourth day of hospitalization. The 

 next four were given massive doses of gamma globulin immedi- 

 ately upon admission, and had relatively uneventful recovery. 



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