On the temperature in diseases : a manual of medical thermometry.

  • Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich
Date:
1871
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    I-3S IIISTOHV AM) lUIU,Ioni!.MMIV. iS?-, in \\\c 'Aniialcs dcs pci'imiccs imtiircllos,' sccnnd series, '* ZouIoi,'ie/' torn, iii, iv, nnd ix) bcloiii^; (o this cali'Ciory, alliiough tl'.cy rfuardcd j)atlit)Iogical ronditions but slijflitly. They tested the varia- tions of leniperalure in dillerent ])arts of llie bodies of animals, by means of extraordinarily sensitive thermo-electric ajiparatus. These experiments found tlie teinj)crature of inllamed parts to be higher than tliat of the rest of the body. Another work, wliicli concerned itself still less with pathology, was the zoo-physiological treatise of Ik-rger, which treated of the determination of temperature in various species of animals (Faits relatifs a la construction d'une ('chelle de degres do la chaleur animale, in the ' j\Iemoires de la societe de physique et histoiro naturelle de Geneve/ torn, vi, part z, p. 257; and 1836, torn, vii, Erhcardf) furnished a comprehensive article in ' Todd's Cyclopsedia,' vol. ii, p. 648, 1836—39. The specially medical publications of this period were far less valuable. CoJlard de Mari'ujnij,'vQ. 1836, wrote, 'Del'influence dela circula- tion generale et pulmonaire de la chaleur du sang, et de celle de ses lluides sur la chaleur animale/ in the 'Journal Conplenation,' torn, xliii, p. 286. The article on warmth in the thirty-volume 'Dictionary' of 1834 had for its authors, for the physiological part V. H. Berard (torn, vii, p. 175), and for the pathological part (p. 212) Chomel, then the first practitioner of his day in Trance. Chomel laid great stress upon temperature, but believed the hand to be the only proper instrument to determine it, and that the thermometer only gave im- perfect ideas of its elevation, and was unable to give any indications of its special modifications. Bouillaud, however, declares that he made more than three hundred thermometric observations ('Cliuique j\led,' i, 294, and iii, 428). Bonne ('Archiv. General:' 2 serie, ix, 129) investigated the temperature in various diseases, and compared it with the pulse and res^iirations. Fiomj (1838, 'Traite de la diagnostic,' iii, p. 28) recognises the necessity of a measurement of the skin temperature dans plusieurs cas, and cites the following from Blot, Lorsq'un voit tant de resultats obtenus par le seul secours d'un peu de mercure enferme