EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE.
105 DEGREES F. SURVIVED. A contributor to the Witch Doctor's column recently inquired Why it is that human beings cannot live when their temperature is more than 105 degrees. She is not strictly correct in her statement, however, for cases are on record of patients attaining a temperature of more than 105 degrees and surviving. The medical superintendent of the Auckland Hospital writes to the effect that he personally had an experience with a patient recording a temperature of 106 degrees for eight hours and still living—in fact, the patient is alive and well to-day.
As a matter of fact it is not the high temperature that causes death, but the disease with which the patient is suffering.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 239, 8 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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121EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 239, 8 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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