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Significance of abnormally low temperatures

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1933
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Monro, Ruth Mary
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1. In a few intra-cranial diseases a subnormal temperature is a definite feature of the condition. This was chiefly the case in vascular diseases. In both cerebral haemorrhage and cerebral thrombosis there was a sharp fall at the onset of disease, followed by a rise to normal or higher, and again by a period of irregular subnormal temperature. 2. Intra-cranial tumours and increased intracranial pressure do not as a rule give rise to low temperatures, though there were exceptions. In the few cases of cerebral tumour with subnormal temperature the disease was advanced and the prognosis was bad. 3. In a few cases of epilepsy with physical and mental deterioration a subnormal temperature was a definite feature, but in the majority, even with mental changes, the temperature was within normal limits. 4. Some cases of nervous disease with muscular wasting had prolonged periods of subnormal temperature; and possibly advanced cases of disseminated sclerosis with extensive paralysis may be included in this group. The essential factor seems to be the deficient heat production in the affected muscles. 5. In starvation states, such as bulbar palsy, a low temperature is evidently due to deficient food supply. 6. In a few non-febrile conditions with pain there were falls of temperature which could be traced to attacks of pain, or to lack of sleep. 7. Neuroses, mental depression and mental deterioration may be accompanied by very low and irregular temperatures which are influenced by the mental state during recovery.
 
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