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RECURRENT HIGH FEVER WITH BENIGN OUTCOME IN A PATIENT WITH MIGRAINE AND NOTES ON "NEUROGENIC" FEVER

STEWART WOLF, M.D.; HAROLD G. WOLFF, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1942;70(2):293-302.

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"Neurogenic" fever is a term the limits of which have not been clearly defined. Lesions of the brain stem or the hypothalamus are known to be associated frequently with pyrexia.¹ Typhoid vaccine and other foreign protein agents cause fever probably by functional alterations in the central nervous system.² Whether this effect occurs by virtue of changes in circulation or by direct chemical action on cells of the thermoregulatory apparatus is not yet clear. Even less clear is the mechanism responsible for elevations of body temperature accompanying emotional disturbances. The fact that they do occur, however, has long been known. Most of the writing on the subject has appeared in the German literature. Friedmann and Kohnstamm³ in 1914 recognized that fever frequently accompanied excitement and emotional tension in the absence of physical overactivity. Seven years later Eichelberg⁴ was able to induce temperatures up to 39.2 C. (102.5 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the New York Hospital and the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College.

Footnotes
National Research Council Fellow in the Medical Sciences.

Dr. Herbert S. Ripley saw the patient frequently in consultation and supplied some of the data regarding his personality.

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