On the diagnostic and prognostic significance of prolonged subfebrile temperatures

The study of prolonged subfebrile temperatures is of great practical importance, because the clinic of these temperatures is very poorly studied, we do not know the genesis of this phenomenon, and in this regard, our therapeutic measures in this kind of patients are very chaotic. Brought up on the idea that the subfebrile temperature is almost exceptional manifestation of chronic infection, our thought is unwilling to accept the possibility of its other origin. Having before him a patient with a long subfebrile fever, the practitioner tries to associate it with some chronic infection, most often with chronic malaria or tuberculosis, - especially since the complaints of such patients often easily fit into the clinical picture of one or the other of these diseases.