Arizona republican., 1899-06-19
A VERY WARM PATIENT
His Apparent Temperature Ran Any
 wheE From IOS 10 I57.

There are any number of maling- erers in town" began lhe attending i physician at an east side hospital.
 They have the ability to feign dis | eases, throw fits on the street, get i picked up by the ambulance and some l times they impose upon the house physician and nurses and are allowed
 to stay a little while in Q hospital l knew Of one man who was really an expert at the business. He puzzled 1 the doctors and lived for the greater part cf three years at various hospi- l tais. l was one of his dupes.
 "I had hurry cal to a house on Second avenue. On the second floor I found my man lying unconscious, with blood upon his mouth. I felt his pulse
 and found there wasn't anything un
 usual about that. Then, in tearing off his clothes to make a hurried exami-
 nation, l found that his ribs on the left
 side were all pasted up with court plas- ter, in strips, just as any doctor would
 fiX up broken ribs. That's where th4 blood comes from, 1 said at once One
 of the fractured ribs has slipped and punctuTad the lung. 1 gave him some thlng to stop the bleeding and a hypo- dcImic injection to bring him to, and
 then bound up an open briuse 1 dis : covered on his elbcw. While he was recovering consciousness took his temperature and I found it away up
 10S and 109. Now, the normal tenn
 pPrature of human being is 9S.4. Iii
 the worse cases Of pneumonia we don't
 expect to find it over 105.
 Just then the man came to and tried th make me understand what had hap pened to him. get a German in from across the hall to interpret The pa
 tient said he had fallen through an open hatch on schooner bound from Baltimore to New York about a month ago; that he had been attended by physician on his arrival here and had gotten along al right until now when lie had suddenly collapsed His tenn parature showed that I had a serious case on my hands, though I couldn't tell for the life of me what was the matter with him.
 ''I hurried him into the hospital, put him to bed and explained the extra ordinary feature of his ease to the house The house took his tenn p2rature again and ii vas Ill! Then i've dTugged him and gave his feet cold baths and took his temperature again. l. had run Up to 113. And thero didn't seem to be anything the matter With him outside of that. Everybody in the hospital got to taking about the case. When the attending wen1 through the ward the house hurried him by that German He didn't want to confess that he was staggered. The patient didn't grow any worse He maintained a constantly high tenn pera'ture, anywhere between 110 and 125, and we kept up the drugs and the cold foot baths.
 "One day the attending noticed the case and asked how long that man was going to be kept in bed to cure 2 sore elbow Then the nurse told him. Take his temDerature.' said the attending The nurse put the thermometer in the mans mouth under the tongue nnG the doctor watched narrowly. All of a sudden he walked up to the bed: 'GC5 cut of herei Get up and dress an1 dent let me sec you again he said sternly to the patient. And in half all hour the man was out nn :he sidewalk. You sec. that doctor was an older man than any cf us. He saw the man Eas f-lIng, that he manipulated Jhe ther-