Experiments on the action of red Bordeaux wine (claret) on the human body / by E.A. Parkes and Cyprian Wollowicz.

  • Parkes, Edmund A. (Edmund Alexander), 1819-1876.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Experiments on the action of red Bordeaux wine (claret) on the human body / by E.A. Parkes and Cyprian Wollowicz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    (6) In the Rectum. Rectum before wine (thermometer inserted for about 3 inches, and kept in for 2^ minutes). Hours. Da s Mean of ay . 8 A.M. 12 noon. 4 P.M. 10 P.M. the days. 1 st day ... 99 99-6 99-95 99-8 99-27 2nd day ... 99-2 99-2 99-4 99-2 99-25 3rd day ... 99-8 99 99-2 99-5 99-37 4th day ... 99-8 99-4 99-4 99-6 99-55 5th day ... 99-4 99-6 99-2 99 99-3 6th day ... 99-2 99-8 99-6 99-6 99-55 7th day ... 99-6 99-6 99-2 99-4 99-45 8th day ... 99-4 99-6 99-4 99-2 99-4 9th day ... 99 994 98-6 99-0 99 10th day... 98-6 99-8 99-4 99-8 99-65 Means ... 99-2 99-50 99-29 99-41 99-38 The mean temperature of the rectum (taken four times a day instead of three, as in the former experiments, and at different hours) was rather higher than the mean of tlie former experiments, viz. as 99*38 to 99'066. It was also more uniform, both from day to day and hour to hour. If these four hours be accepted as giving the mean temperature of the 24 hours, the rectum temperature was 1^'654 above that in the axilla. Rectum during wine. Hours. Mean of Days. 8 A.M. 12 noon. 4 P.M. 10 P.M. the days. 11th day.. 98-6 99-9 99-2 99 6 99-37 12th day... 98-4 994 99-6 99-2 99-15 13th day... 98-6 99-4 99-8 99 99-2 14th day... 98-8 99-8 99-2 99 99-2 15th day... 99-4 996 99 99 99-25 16th day... 998 99-4 99-6 99-4 99-55 17th day... 98-6 99-6 99-8 99 9925 ]8th day... 98-8 99-6 99-2 98 98-9 19th day... 98-6 99-5 99 98-4 98-87 20th day... 99 99-8 99-4 99-8 99-5 Means ... 98-86 99-60 99-38 99-01 99 22 The mean temperature is 0°16 lower. It is curious that this is almost precisely the same change as in the case of the axillary temperature ; yet it is probably an accidental coincidence. The 4 p.m. temperature, which ought to show the effect of wine, is slightly higher (0° 09) than in the first period; the 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. temperatures are lower by nearly 0°3, and the 12 o'clock temperature is higher by 0°1. The differences are thus slight, and in contrary directions, so that no de- cided influence, one way or the other, can, we think, be ascribed to the wine. YOL. XIX. G