WORLD’S HOTTEST MAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1938, Page 5

WORLD’S HOTTEST MAN

SOUTH AFRICAN DOCTORS PUZZLED. A Natal man living in Harrismith claims to be the “hottest” man in South Africa. Five years ago it was discovered that he was “running a temperature.” He was put to bed, the diagnosis being ’flu. He did not respond to treatment, and the next diagnosis was a chonic case of appendicitis. The appendix was removed, but the temperature remains, and his tonsils and a fistula operation followed in quick succession. Still the temperature remained. Then commenced a round of the leading heart, nerve, tropical disease and other specialists in Johannesburg, but the temperature remained. This was followed by a period in the Johannesburg General Hospital, where other specialists examined him, and eventually he was handed over to the South African Institute for Medical Research, but there, too, all tests, blood counts, and so on, proved to be negative. After five years the doctors have come to the conclusion that he is a freak, a man who walks around with a temperature which every day averages anything between 99.2 and 100 degrees —a temperature which would send any normal man to bed.