Family thermometry : a manual of thermometry, for mothers, nurses, hospitalers, etc., and all who have charge of the sick and of the young / by Edward Seguin.
- Édouard Séguin
- Date:
- 1873
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Family thermometry : a manual of thermometry, for mothers, nurses, hospitalers, etc., and all who have charge of the sick and of the young / by Edward Seguin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![have found that the temperature of some one of their family reaches three degrees above zero (thus written (A)j o*ie degree and alialfbelow it (T. 5); and relin- quish to him all responsibility, as soon as these alarms are in figures written. To those women, the thermome- ter has rendered all the service it can, in warning them of the precise point at which they cease to be adequate to the task of taking care of the patient; and that is right. Let every one go as far as her comprehension goes; do not ask a step more, it would be a mis-step. But for those who feel able to help their jahysician by adding to their good nursing the recording of the movement of the temperature during his absence—a record which is so necessary to guide his future action— and for the other women who happen to be so situated as to be deprived of medical assistance, and still must take care of their sick; for these intelligent and reso- lute persons, like yourself, Madam, the following instruc- tions are written. After taking the teni23erature correctly, the next thing is to record it correctly. For one cannot make sev- eral thermometric observations without feeling that, to find out their correlative meanings, they must be com- puted and recorded with a strict accuracy. This accuracy is obtained by an arrangement of charts, on which are noted the temperature, the ]3ulse, and the resiDiration, morning and evening, oi’ oftener. This material |Drocess of nursing under the light of thermometry, is so important, that I jHtt off the consid- eration of its results in order to show its mechanism. It is a kind of book-keeping of the three vital signs, tem- jaerature, pulse, and resjjiration, under the title of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24991715_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
