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
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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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    Note the time at which ])oth exacerbation and remis- sion began; for an exacerbation beginning every day earlier is a bad sign, and one which begins eveiy day later promises well. But for the remission, the reverse calculation obtains j the earlier begun the better, the later the worse. i Note, too, their respecth'e durations. A long exacer- bation is bad, a short one good; a long remission is good, a short one bad. Now for what can be learned from the greatest height (maximum) of the exacerbation, and from the greatest depth (minimum) of the remission. Of course, the high- est point daily attained by the index indicates one, the lowest the other. If tlie maxima gi'ow higher daily, and their sum weekly, and the minima grow deejicr, separately or simultane- ously, the danger is on the increase; if either comes gradually nearer the norme, the other one not receding from it at the same time, the chances are improving; and if both maxima and minima gradually ajjproach that point—0 on the physiological thermometer—the cure is nigh. The temperature of twenty-four hours may remain most of the time in the neighborhood of the maximum, or of the minimum, either being a good or a bad sign, according as to Avhich of these extremes is nearest or farthest from the norme. The range (excursus) of the temperature between the maximum and the minimum is called the daily dilfer- ence. A great difference is absolutely dangerous, but a small one may be relatively as bad if the field of its ex- cux'sus is limited to one single degree or about, far above