The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-29
HIGH TEMPERATURES.
A Woman Showed III DEGREES in Fever
and Lived Through It.

The following remarkable instance Of the
intense degree to which fever heat NAV
range in the human body. even during life,
Is reported for the information and investi-
CATION OF scientists, writes a correspondents
to the Scientific American. Quan, in his
Dictionary Of Medicine" says "a tempera-
ture OF 100 Indicates great danger; but DR.,
wilson Foy relates case In his experience
In which the temperature reached 11Oo.
these, with some others, are accounted ex-
traordlnary records of high temperature.
Wunderlich noted temperature of 112.55s
In case OF tet mus. but this temperature
was reached after the patient expired.
1t Is evident. therefore, that up to tenn.
perature of 1100. or even ITO, in some ex-
ceptional cases, patient may live but we
have no instance anywhere recorded Of O
patient surviving higher temperature than
that The following, therefore. which Is a
thoroughly trustworthy and authentic ac-
count, and may at any time be verified by
such as are DESTROYS in the cause Of science
to inquire further into it, Is worthy of rec
ord. and therefore send you such details
as l am IN possession OF, and which / have
obtained from an eyewitness, for a corner
IN your scientific paper, in view to inviting
further investigation into such cases:
In July last, at Naini Tai, hill sant-
tarinm in British India, situated in latitude
290 %, longitude 7Jo 30, at an altitude of
6409 feet above the sea level, religious
lady in st. Mary's Convent was attacked
with what appeared to be an ordinary fever,
After few days symptoms of typhoid
fever developed, and the patients tempera-
ture was taken by the doctor in attendance.
clinical then mometer, with range of 110s,
being employed. On the application of the
thermometer the temperature Of the patient
was found rising rapidly, till the quicksilver
reached its maximum limit OF 1I0O, when the
registering tube burst.
Another clinical thermometer OF the same
range was Immediately procured and ap-
piled with the same result, and another and
another After four of the 110o range had
burst. one of 115o and % over was procured
and used, and this also burst. At this last
experiment the military surgeon in charge
of the cOnyalescent depot was also present.
1t is, therefore, in point Of fact, unknown
how much above 1170 her temperature may
have risen, as no thermometer of greater
range was prOcurabe. But the most re-
markable feature in the case remains TO be
told. and that is, the patient had made
good recovery, and is at the present time
doing well in her convent at Naini Tai.
The lady is German by birth, is aged IS
years, has been twelve years in India, and
has a strong, robust constitutions but to my
thinking no constitution, however strong.
could 60 through such an ordeal without
supernatural aid.
l am not too ready to believe in miracles.
l am a skeptic, but if this is not miracle
should like to know if science has discovered
any other name for IL.
| have had long experience Of fevers Of
all kinds in this land of fevers, but I have
never heard or seen case in any way re-
semblng this. The patient, notwithstand-
ing the extraordinary intensity of the fever
which ragged in her, was never so totally IN
conscious as not TO be able to recognize
those who were in constant attendance on
her.
She was at times delirious, but only for
short intervals, and considering she has
been i'll altogether only seventy days or
thereabout. her recovery seems to be as WON
derful as the malady from which she has
suffered. The medical authorities have pro-
nounced her case one of typhoid fever; but
perhaps science will be able to fad an eI-
ceptional name for a fever that no heatreg-
istering invention has been able to gauge.