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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    HOW TO SUPPLY IT. If the morning temperature is two to five-tenths of a degree below the norme (.2-.s) the child is ill-fed for some cause, or undei- a depressing influence, like (nostalgia) home-sickness; if it is generally low, and do not rise .1-.25 after meals, his food is worthless; if it is almost normal, with hardly any healthy undulations, the child needs more exercise and general stimulation; if it is nor- m.al in the morning, and rises .25-1 after a mental efibrt in the middle of the day, the child is not—at least for the present—-fit for a student’s life. If the morning tempera- ture is progressively rising towards evening, hurry him away, quickly, and far away, to some jflace and occupation where he will have enough of oxygen, pure air, food, and exercise, to live, to grow, to work, and to spare. That is the judgment founded upon this law: The body is an organism, whose component parts evolve forces available for organic or mechanical labor. The fuel of this force is oxygen, which, presented in acceptable form, and once stored in the body, becomes a potential force, convertible during movement into an active force; the two being, of course, but one and the same force, al- ternately in puissance, a I’eserve, and in action. The supply of this force comes mainly from the vege- table life, as the plant lives mainly upon the products of animal oxidation. When, during six months. Dr. H. Ben- net breathes the emanations of the sea and the perfumer’s gardens of the Mediterranean shores, he stores in his consumptive frame enough of]3otential forces to last him, and be transformed into acting forces, during his next six months of medical life in London. Doing this, the emi- nent,physician does not copy any prescription from the