1460 



HEAT STROKE AND HEAT SYNCOPE 



HEAT LOW FEVER. 



Definition, — low intermittent fever of long duration, occurring 

 in persons in poor health conditions, under the influence of continued 

 high air temperatures and a degree of atmospheric humidity. 



Remarks, — ^The temperature generally rises to about 100° F. or 

 less every day for months, but the patient may experience little 

 discomfort, except that he does not feel very fit or is in a vague way 

 slightly indisposed. 



Diagnosis. — It must be diagnosed from low intermittent fever 

 by the fact that in this complaint the patient feels ill. 



Treatment. — Rest and change of climate effects a cure, for the 

 time being at all events. 



REFERENCES. 



Brown, Carnegie (1906). British Medical Journal (Degeneration of the 



Myocardium in Hot Climates), i. 1462, 1463. 

 Cleaves (1904). Light Energy, pp. 253, 254, and 798-801. 

 Duncan (1904). Journal of Tropical Medicine. 

 Duncan (1908). Journal Royal Army Medical Corps, xi. 71. 

 Fayrer (1893). Davidson's Hygiene and Diseases of Warm Climates, p, 691. 

 Fayrer (1907). Allbutt and Rolleston's System of Medicine, II., ii. 771-7S2. 

 Freund (1904), Radiotherapy. London. 



Gauss and Meyer (1917). American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 



October, pp. 554-564. 

 GiHON (1893). Twentieth-Century Practice of Medicine, iii. 253-285. (A 



good description of typical cases and a considerable literature.) 

 Giles (1906). British Medical Journal, ii. 596. 

 Haldane (1905). Journal of Hygiene, v. 494-513. 



Halliburton (1904). Bio-chemistry of Muscle and Nerve, pp. 107-1T5. 

 Hill (1906). Recent Advances in Physiology and Bio-chemistry, pp. 271-274. 

 HiRSCH. Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology, iii. 626-651. 



(A very full literature till about 1883.) 

 Koizumi (1918). Mitteil. Med. Gesellsch. 7, Tokio. vol. xxxii., No. 11. 

 Manson {191 8). Tropical Diseases. 



McKenzie and Le Count (1918). Journal American Medical Association, 

 July 27. 



Pembry (1914). Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, xxii. 629-638. 



Rawling (191 8). British Medical Journal, May 4. 



Rho (1907), Mense's Tropenkrankheiten (Italian translation). 



Rogers (1908). Journal Royal Army Medical Corps, x. 25. 



Sambon (i8g8). British Medical Journal, i. 744-748. 



Sellards, Bovie, and Brooks (1918). Journal of Medical Research, 

 New Ser., vol. xxxiii.. No. 3. 



Shakles (1917). Philippine Journal of Science. Section B. Tropical Medi- 

 cine, 1-22. 



Simpson (1908). Journal Royal Army Medical Corps, xi. 441; 1914, xxiii., 

 i-ii. 



Wood (1887). Pepper's System of Medicine, v. 387-400. (A most excellent 

 account, with many quotations.) 



