THE PSYCHIC FACTOR AS AN ELEMENT IN TEMPERATURE DISTURBANCE

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Abstract
Medical men are quite familiar with the temperature variations associated with the commoner clinical syndromes. Pneumonia, typhoid and similar conditions often present such typical febrile reactions that physicians are prone to associate the merely clinical picture with the temperature curve, little considering the underlying pathologic physiology of the variation. But fever and temperature elevation are hardly synonymous. In the words of MacCallum1: "Although elevation of body temperature is one of the salient points, it is by no means the only characteristic, nor is it itself always to be regarded as an infallible sign of fever." Clearly, it is of considerable practical importance to recognize and interpret the type of temperature change which is unaccompanied by noticeable clinical signs. This kind of variation has been noted repeatedly, particularly by physiologists, who have definitely shown, both in the case of man and of certain experimental animals, that exercise,2the taking

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