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

  • Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich
Date:
1871
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    very numerous ones in the same journal for 1847, Nos. 19, 21, and ^^, ofi; in the ' Archiv fiir physiologische Heilkuncle/ 1847, p. 735, and in the ' Prager medicin. Yierteljahrschrift/ 1847, Bd. 4, p. i. In the ^Archiv fiir Chemie und Mikroskopie/ 1847, ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ paper, 'Uber die Analyse des Blutes/ 1847, further observations will be found. In the year 1850, this surgeon published a new series of papers ; first, in the 'Archiv fiir physiologische Heilkunde/ 1850^ p. 283; next, in the first part of his own ' Archivs fiir Pathologie und The- rapie,' 1S50, in the ■'Deutsche KKnik,^ 1851,^0. 36, and 1852, No. 9, in the ' Prager medicin. Yierteljahrschrift,^ Bd. 4, p. 97; in 'Med. Zeitung des Vereins f. Heilkunde in Preussen, 1853, but especially in a brochure which he published, entitled, 'Khnische Untersuchungen zur Pieber-Entziindungs-und Krisen-Lehre,' 1854 (' Clinical Researches in Pevers, Inflammations, and Crises'). Zimmermann undoubtedly rendered a great service to medical thermometry by his untiring observations, made at a time when its importance was generally neglected by medical men. His harsh and fearless denunciations of his colleagues, for neglect of so im- portant, a means of observation, were not entirely unfounded. Be- sides, he has furnished a great number of very valuable facts. The very copiousness of his works has, however, deterred people from following in his steps. Inde]3endently of the mass of facts which they contain, his works are, however, of value, because he first especially pointed out the dependence of elevated temperature upon local processes of inflammation, and the rise of temperature deve- loped in them. It is almost certain that the dissertation of J. Peter Schnitz, whicli appeared at Bonn, in 1849, '^^ calore in morbo,^ and contained about 300 observations of temperature in various diseases, owed its publication to the influence of Nasse, who was almost the only German clinical teacher who took a lively interest in the subject of temperature. \Ye ought, perhaps, to supplement this catalogue with the further observations of Dr. John Davy, on the temperature of healthy persons, as ofi'ering a simple basis for other observations, free from all theoretical propositions. He had published a number of papers from the years 1844 to 1850, of varying value, and in 1863 he published them in a collected form in his ' Physiological Eesearches.' They treat of the temperature in advanced age, of the influence of various 3