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Symptomatology. — The symptoms observed were: Slight rise 
in temperature, supervening from twelve to twenty-four hours 
after treatment and rarely after forty-eight hours; slight leu- 
cocytosis after twenty-four hours ; and slight alterations of 
subjective symptoms. The temperature may assume the lytic, 
remittent, or intermittent type. An example of the lytic type 
of temperature curve is shown in fig. 7. 
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Temperature chart of F. V. Abortive type of typhoid fever, treated with peptone 
intramuscularly. 
Complications. — Complications observed during the treatment 
were one case of acute bronchitis and one case of intestinal 
haemorrhage (haemorrhage present at admission). 
Mortality. — As these cases were all admitted when the epi- 
demic was in its terminal period and morbidity not at its maxi- 
mum, none resulted fatally. 
MILK 
Saxl(45) in 1916 successfully employed sterile milk in typhoid 
fever, administered intramuscularly. In fact, it is commonly 
used in Germany. The principle involved in this treatment is 
the introduction of a heterogenous protein substance, which con- 
stitutes a considerable portion of the milk. 
