Soins médicaux aux Etats-Unis, 1931-1937. - 16 photos - Photo n° 230114
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GIRL WHO'S BEEN RUNNING DAILY TEMPERATURE OF 115 DEGREES. Los Angeles, Calif... Alice Tolan, the 20-year-old Mexican girl who has astounded physicians of the world because of the fact that she has been running a daily temperature in excess of 110 degrees for the pas three months. Doctors Generally regard temperature of 107 degrees as being fatal in humans. Nurse Bernice Hayward is shown taking the temperature of the patient with a specially constructed thermocouple, the ordinary clinical thermometer only registering up to 110 degrees. Doctors explain the 115-degree temperature by concluding that the tubercular tumor in Miss Tolan's third brain ventricle is causing it. The third brain ventricle is the "heat centre" of the brain. Her pulse has been normal and her respiration sub-normal. R-12-17-32-11/45. [Sipho] [International News Photos]
