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Case No. 3. White man, age 34 years, entered the hospital on March 

 5, 1917, with a diagnosis of lobar pneumonia of the lower right lobe of 

 three days' standing. The course of the disease was quite protracted. By 

 the 4th day after admission the temperature had declined and the patient 



TEMPERATURE CURVE 



FIG. 6. The relation of the clinical condition during pneumonia to the serum 

 ereptase and antiferment. 



was clinically improved when an extension to the middle lobe occurred. 

 The temperature increased for several days, then declined to the 8th day. 

 At about this time the lower left lobe became involved, which entailed an- 

 other rise in temperature, followed by a period of partial recovery with a 

 long period of violent temperature fluctuations superseding. A month 

 after admission the patient was still running an irregular febrile course 



