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a diminution of the temperature is always more or less observed. 
Chronic diseases are always accompanied by decrease of tem¬ 
perature, and especially tuberculosis. If an increased temperature 
presents itself in the last named disease, it proves that a compli¬ 
cation, with inflammation, is present, or that the disease is at a 
crisis; the increase is usually small but accompanied with aggra¬ 
vation towards evening; it is often observed to be of a remitting 
type. 
In paralyzed parts , Schmitz, Barensprung and Nothnagel ob¬ 
served a slight decrease in the temperature. Tolet, on the other 
hand, found an increased temperature on the paralyzed side in 
hemiplegia , which as a rule did not exceed a degree. The tem¬ 
perature is partially decreased in dead (gangrenous), oedematous, 
and indurated tissues, also frequently in those parts of the body 
which are at rest, as well as in all parts where the circulation is 
small, or the cooling is increased; a reduction of 5° or 10° can 
take place. We cannot ascertain this reduction by the thermome¬ 
ter at the rectum, but with the “ Thermographen.” 
The thermometer has a particular diagnostical value in diseases 
of the brain and spinal cord , especially to separate encephalitis 
from chronic congestion and amentia (Dummkoller). It is main¬ 
tained by Zanger and Johne, that in encephalitis the temperature 
rises to 40° and 41.3°, whilst in amentia (Dummkoller), it remains 
normal, or sometimes below the normal point. It should not be 
forgotten that the life of the veterinary surgeon is sometimes in 
danger, by ascertaining the temperature of animals suffering from 
acute encephalitis. 
It is erroneously asserted that tetanus is accompanied with in¬ 
crease of the temperature. Bayer noticed, that the temperature 
remained almost normal, so long as the disease takes a moderate 
course ; but if the disease takes an acute and fatal course, the tem¬ 
perature quickly rises, and even surpasses that observed in other 
diseases. In one case the temperature was 39.2° some days be¬ 
fore death, but about an hour and a-half before death it stood at 
41.2°, and at the moment of death 44°, from which it rose within 
50 minutes to 45.4°, where it remained for about five minutes? 
and then began to fall. The same was observed by Trasbot. In 
