Excerpt from Medical Record, Vol. 66: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; July 2, 1904-December 31, 1904 The pyrexia of measles and scarlet fever, due to the respective specific infectious cause of these dis eases occurs during the eruptive stage as thus de fined and the stage of defervescence. By that I do not mean that the rise and fall of temperature that occurs during these stages of all cases of measles and scarlet fever is due to the specific virus of these diseases, emphatically not; for very many suffer during the earliest as well as the latest stage from a variety of complications and mixed infections, each of which causes modifications and deviations from the temperature curves character istic of measles and scarlet fever when these diseases are uncomplicated. What is meant is that the characteristic temperature curve of measles as well as the characteristic temperature curve of scarlet fever covers the stage of eruption and the stage of defervescence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.