Practically all that can be said regarding these records of body temperature is that the reduced diet did not, save in the case of Squad B, produce any noticeable alteration from the ordinary temperature control exhibited by normal individuals. The febrile temperature of Spe has been a matter of very considerable perplexity. On December 9, at 6 a. m., in the respiration chamber in Boston, this subject gave a rectal temperature of 97.6° F. On December 12 at 5h45m a. m., prior to the gaseous-metabolism experiment, he had a mouth temperature of 99.6° F. On December 13 records of the mouth temperature were taken very frequently. In the morning it was 100.5° F.; later in the afternoon the attending physician recorded it as 102° F.; at 6h30m p. m., 102.5° F.; at 7 a. m., December 14, 102.2° F.; at 6 p. m., December 14, 104.2° F.; and in the early morning of December 15, 102.8° F. Spe then left Springfield for his home. The body-temperature record in the subsequent course of the illness is given in figure 87 on page 363. The variations in the temperature curve of typhoid patients are altogether too wide to allow any deductions as to whether this case of suspected typhoid showed usual values or not. It is clear, however, that no extraordinarily high or low temperature measurements were found even in this case of infection, and that the important temperature-regulating function of the body is capable of withstanding very material alterations in the diet without noticeable disturbance.

1 Blake and Larrabee, Boaton Med. and Surg. Journ.. 1903, 148, p. 195.

In the recent study made by Loewy and Zuntz,1 the latter found no change in his body temperature at the end of his experiments on low diet, the values obtained in 1916 being no lower than those recorded prior to the war. No temperature measurements for Loewy are reported.