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some time, it is, as above mentioned, a bad sign, even if other 
symptoms show improvement. Liebermeister has ascertained 
that these abnormal and continuous increases of the temperature 
present themselves in most infectious diseases, where decomposi¬ 
tion of the blood takes place. A distinct increase is noticed in 
anthrax, the thermometer standing at 41°, and sometimes at 41.7°. 
Brusaseo has seen it at 42.6°. At the moment of death, a sudden 
decrease to 38°, and even 36°, takes place. Fossati mentions that 
in an outbreak of anthrax, it was possible to recognize diseased 
animals by the thermometer. One or two days before the peculiar 
symptoms developed themselves, he always found an increase of 
1 ° or 2°. Rivolta experimented with rabbits, and found an in¬ 
crease of 0.5° four hours after inoculation, and in one animal a 
rise of 0.75° in the same time, which rose to 2.25° after nine 
hours, death following in about seventeen hours. 
In pig typhus (so-called) (Rotlilauf der Scliweine) the temper¬ 
ature rises from 40° to 41°; and Gerlach observed a temperature 
of 43.1° and 42.5° an hour before death. Harms even reports a 
temperature of 43.4. 
In septicaemia a destruction of the tissues is characterized by an 
excessive increase of the temperature, which in horses may reach 
41.9°. A horse affected with pyaemia had a temperature of 41° 
for nine days with very little remission (Bayer). In a dog the 
temperature was very fluctuating, the highest point being 41.8°, 
which at death was 38.9°, and after the last beat of the heart it 
rose quite suddenly to 39.2°. The pain, or traumatismus, of ani¬ 
mals which have been operated upon, causes at the most an in¬ 
crease of 1°. When the thermometer shows an increase of 2° or 
3°, septicaemia or pyaemia may be feared, and we must immedi¬ 
ately seek for the origin of the infection. 
I va paturient apoplexy (kalbefieber), which I consider a septic 
infection, a temperature of about 41° is observed; and if a sud¬ 
den or quick decrease takes place, we may safely prognose a fatal 
termination, the cooling being due to collapse or want of force. 
Adam, however, observed in one case the subnormal temperature 
of 35.7°, which gradually improved as the cow recovered her 
consciousness, when it showed a temperature of 39°. 
