, and was rendered unconscious for four days.
Thereafter he complained of various pains, bloody expectoration, and
had convulsions at varying intervals, with loss of consciousness, rapid
respiration, unaccelerated pulse, and excessively high temperature, the
last on one occasion reaching the height of 148 degrees F. The
temperature was taken carefully in the presence of a number of persons,
and all possible precautions were observed to prevent deception. The
thermometer was variously placed in the mouth, anus, axilla, popliteal
space, groin, urethra, and different instruments were from time to time
employed. The behavior of the patient was much influenced by attention
and by suggestion. For a period of five days the temperature averaged
continuously between 120 degrees and 125 degrees F.

In the discussion of the foregoing case, Welch of Baltimore referred to
a case that had been reported in which it was said that the temperature
reached as high as 171 degrees F. These extraordinary elevations of
temperature, he said, appear physically impossible when they are long
continued, as they are fatal to the life of the animal cell.

In the same connection Shattuck of Boston added that he had observed a
temperature of 117 degrees F.; every precaution had been taken to
prevent fraud or deception. The patient was a hysteric young woman.

Jacobi closed the discussion by insisting that his observations had
been made with the greatest care and precautions and under many
different circumstances. He had at first viewed the case with
skepticism, but he could not doubt the results of his observation. He
added, that although we cannot explain anomalies of this kind, this
constitutes no reason why we should deny their occurrence.

Duffy records one of the lowest temperatures on record in a negress of
thirty-five who, after an abortion, showed only 84 degrees F. in the
mouth and axillae. She died the next day.

The amount of external heat that a human being can endure is sometimes
remarkable, and the range of temperature compatible with life is none
the less extraordinary. The Esquimaux and the inhabitants of the
extreme north at times endure a temperature of--60 degrees F., while
some of the people living in equatorial regions are apparently healthy
at a temperature as high as 130 degrees F., and work in the sun, where
the temperature is far higher. In the engine-rooms of some steamers
plying in tropical waters temperatures as high as