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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![the intellectual fire with his own substance. I called, after Trousseau, Erjophagism the operation by which staiwed patients live upon their own substance; must I now call ego])yrism the homicidal operation by which human ustion is kept up without a supply of fuel equiva- lent to the demand ? But common people have long ago found the proper name of that self-combustion, consump- tion, not only of the lungs, but of the brain and other vital organs. It is, like all the exaggerated ustions, writ- ten on the thermometer. That is where a mother must read—not its confirmation, which will soon be imprinted upon the features, an indelible shadow of the destroyer —but its warnings; let us read these together. ■ When a child is confined to school-rooms, crowded dor- mitories, or manufactories, being meanwhile underfed and overworked, his mother must, at every opportunity, study his temperature. First with tlie hand, to feel the heat, dryness, tension, and other modifications of the skin, whicli indicate a waste, or a want of vitality, and to com- pare the temperature of different parts with each other. If this hand-survey is not satisfactory, she applies her thermometers. (Where children are gathered for their education, it will soon be considered indispensable to take their tem- perature, local and general, individual and average, by groups of ti’aining, and all together, at every important change of studies, of food, of clothing, etc. With the present dearth of such standard measures, the mother is expected to have, previously to sending her child to school, taken the normes of both temperatures of the head and armjiit.) Then the mother applies the surface-thermometer to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24991715_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
