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This can be described as showing a sudden rise to 102–104, at which point it is maintained for a few days, and subsides by lysis in a few days more. A typical chart is as follows:

CHART I

Or the temperature might fall one or two degrees for a day or so after the first rise, and then go up again for one or two more days, and subside by lysis as is shown in Chart II.

CHART II

This would occur without our being able to find any lung lesion unless we accept the acute œdema or wet lung as a complication, and this we were rarely able to recognize by any definite physical signs in the chest. Cyanosis frequently accompanied this second rise of temperature, and was later interpreted as being associated with the so-called wet lung. When the temperature remained up longer than five days it could safely be concluded that lung involvement must be present.