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\he case of a gfrl whose itempera^urje reached the extraordinary figuse of 114 cleg. Fahr., while she was suffering from influenza, and who Itas nevertheless recovered, is reported Jby a Brisbaue doctor, s^js the Daily Express, When he was .ftrsst summoned to see the girl a domestic servant in..a. CJifton house— the _ doctor was astonished to find his clinical thermometer record a temperature of 112. His first impression \y&s that the thermometer »was at fault. He according for another, but the reading was again^ 112. Still incredulous, he tried two other thermometers., and Stained ihe same figure. Appropriate .treatment was at once applied, and the girl's temperature was reduced to normal—9B.6 or thereabouts. Overnight the temperature again mounted, and the doctor at hi« morning visit was astounded to find if 114. Treatment again brought it down, and precautionary measures were tafcen against the possibility of heart attacks.- The patient has since made uninterrupted progress, and has now gained sufficient strength to go to a convalescent home in order to complete her recovery. The e^se will be the subject of a report in the medical journals, for medical literature does not record an instance of such temperature followed by the patient's recovery.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 April 1922, Page 5
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242Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 April 1922, Page 5
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