Observations on the effects of exercise on the temperature and circulation / by C. Handfield Jones.

  • Charles Handfield Jones
Date:
[1873]
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Credit: Observations on the effects of exercise on the temperature and circulation / by C. Handfield Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ttrti effects o£ nervo-muscular exertion on the great functions of circu¬ lation and. calorification in the human body must always form an inter¬ esting subject of observation, not only to the physiologist, but also to the physician, as affording the best available test of the power of the indi¬ vidual frame to endure the strain of disease as well as of fatigue. The effect of bodily exertion on temperature has often been observed. J. Davy found active exertion to raise the temperature 1°* 7 F. Obernier found that a quick march of 1^ hour raised the temperature 1°*8 to 2°*16F. Wun¬ derlich gives the case of an athlete, who, while running a race, suddenly became faint and insensible, and was found soon after to have a tempera¬ ture of 104o,,9 F., a pulse of 128, and some albumen in his urine. In two hours the temperature had fallen to 102°*38. On the second morning the temperature was normal, and remained so, while the urine quickly became free from albumen. Dr. Bathurst Woodman relates the case of a youth who, after walking seventy miles in two days, had a temperature of 105° F., with a pulse of 130, and enormous quantities of lithates in the urine. Another, after similar exertion, was similarly affected. This evidence seems conclusive as to the tendency of severe nervo-muscular exertion to raise the bodily temperature; and it seems that this result is promoted by any existing debility, as in one of Obernier’s observations, when the man was out of health, a very fast walk of one hour raised his temperature to 103°-28 F. Wunderlich’s and Dr. Woodman’s cases are of special interest,
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