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Show Trick by Which High Fever Is Brought On St. Louis. By just wrapping wrap-ping a piece of dry cloth about the bulb of a clinical thermometer ther-mometer and blowing hard upon it, a patient can manufacture manu-facture evidence that he has a startlingly high fever. Dr. Ona K. DeFoe has discovered this new trick that doctors must be llert for when encountering unusually unusu-ally high temperatures in their practice prac-tice of medicine. In an explanation nppenring in the journal Science, Dr. DeFoe of the St. Louis college of pharmacy credits abnormally high temperatures for extended periods pe-riods in usual cases to the use ef heat'ifc pads or hot-water bottles, but suggests that the blowing method meth-od can achieve 106 to 108 degrees Fahrenheit, which is usually the limit lim-it fi r clinical thermometers. |