Essays and observations on the construction and graduation of thermometers, and on the heating and cooling of bodies / By George Martine, M.D.

  • George Martine
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1787
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    fixing the due bounds to fuch things being refer- \ed to this prefent age. 'I he ingenious Dr. Hales* * * § fiippofes the heat of the blood in high fevers to be about gr. 85 in his Thermometer, which comes to gr. 136-'- in ours ; a degree of heat which, I believe, no animal ever arrives at, nay, which I reckon no living creature is able to bear. Dr. Boerhaavef furniflieth us with fome curious obfervations of animals yery foon deftroyed in air of gr. 146, who all died in lefs time than what would have been ne- celfary to bring their bodies up to the hear of gr. 136. A Thermometer put into one of their mouths a little after its death hood at gr. 110. 5 2. Nor, on the other hand, would I fuppofe the fever heat fo low, or that low heat fo dangerous, as the great Dr. Boerhaave f Teems to do. He is . afraid of its coagulating the ferurn of the blood, reckoning that terrible mifehievous work might be eflcfted by a degree of heat not much above gr. 100. Whence Dr. Halcs]|, and Dr. Arbuthnotf, led thereto by Dr. Boerhaave’s authority, affirm, * Veg. Stat. p. 60. -f Chem. I. p. 275. X Aph. 96, 689. Chem. I. p. 343. H. p. 352, 3-53» 378, 2i3> 357> 358. 5 EIxmaft. p. 104, 105. § Eff. on Air, p. 114, 211. N that