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or another, a child patient today.
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In any case, if the patient survived the algid stage,
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there was then the second stage,
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that nineteenth-century physicians called the reaction stage,
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that might last four or five days.
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The prognosis isn't really better, but the symptoms are.
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At this time the cold body becomes warmer.
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There's a fever usually.
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The patient suffers terrible headache and is often delirious.
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The problem is that there were terrible complications
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that overtook patients in the reaction stage.
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Pneumonia was a frequent complication.