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FIG. 58. CHARTS SHOWING EFFECT OF FEAR UPON THE PULSE. 



The patient, a foreigner, was brought to the operating room from the 

 accident ward, pulse and temperature -normal. When he found himself in 

 the operating room he was greatly disturbed. It was impossible to make 

 him understand that his leg was not to be amputated, but only a plaster 

 cast applied. Under the stimulus of fear his pulse rose to 150, and he soon 

 developed a temperature of 101.2 degrees. 



