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To the Editor: The Images in Clinical Medicine in the February 16 issue¹ presents a temperature chart of cyclic fever in Hodgkin's disease, which the authors identify as Pel-Ebstein fever.

In his essay ``Making Sense,''<sup>2</sup> Richard Asher refers specifically to Pel-Ebstein fever as a classic example of a condition that exists only because it has a name. As he points out, ``Every student and every doctor knows that cases of Hodgkin's disease may show a fever that is high for one week and low for the next week and so on. Does this phenomenon really exist at all? If you . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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