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Excerpt from Transactions of the Clinical Society, Vol. 12
It would manifestly be impossible to mention the many communications of this class in detail; but I may perhaps, without impropriety, refer to a few of them as illustrations of the work that has been done. I must, however, premise that I shall select them without any view to their compara tive excellence, but solely because they relate to cases which possess some special pathological or practical interest.
At our second meeting, held on January 24, 1868, im portant communications were presented by Drs. Hermann Weber, Murchison, and burdon-sanderson, upon Sudden Death in Rheumatic Fever, with Excessive Temperature.' These cases were read here some months prior to the publi cation of our associate Dr. Wilson Fox's very interesting monograph on the same subject; and, with the exception of three cases published in the Medical Times and Gazette by Dr. Ringer in 1867, they were, I believe, the first brought before the profession in this country. Several other cases of high temperature, either in rheumatic fever or other diseases, have been subsequently communicated to the Society, by Drs. Hermann Weber, Southey, and C. T. Williams, and gave rise to very interesting discussions upon the use of cold baths in the treatment of hyper-pyrexia.
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