Medical thermometry, and human temperatureWilliam Wood & Company, 1871 - 280 pages |
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Medical Thermometry, and Human Temperature (Classic Reprint) C. A. Wunderlich No preview available - 2017 |
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abnormal acute affections alteration of temperature amphibolic ature average axilla begins blood body catarrhal cause Cent cholera chronic clinical cold collapse complications continuous convalescence course of temperature crises daily difference death death-agony defervescence disease elevation of temperature eruption erysipelas exacerbations exanthem Fahr fall of temperature fastigium fatal favorable febrile hæmorrhages heat height high temperature higher Hippocrates human temperature increased inflammation influence intercurrent irregularities less lysis maximum measles medical thermometry meningitis miliary tuberculosis moderate morning remissions nervous normal temperature observation occur paroxysm pathological patient perature pericarditis period phenomena phthisis physician pleurisy pneumonia positive diagnosis prognosis protracted pulse pyæmia pyrexia rapid rarely reached records recovery relapsing fever remittent rheumatism rigor rise of temperature scarlatina second week septenary severe sick slight sphygmograph stage subnormal surface thermometers symptoms tempera termination ther therapeutic thermometer tion trichinosis tuberculosis ture typhoid fever typhus vital signs whilst Wunderlich
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Page 3 - Physiological Researches respecting the influence of the Brain on the action of the Heart and on the generation of animal heat; Phil.
Page 265 - To Convert Centigrade into Fahrenheit. Multiply by 9, divide by 5, and add 32 to the result.
Page 132 - Six of the group of cases noticed in this paper were children, yet we had a severe course of the fever, and the temperature record commenced high, showing frequent irregularities. Wunderlich states, that in children, particularly in the younger subjects, the course of typhoidal temperature is somewhat irregular. The commonest of these irregularities is its extreme mildness; yet the temperature rises in the first days to a higher average than in adults: it passes more quickly into the remitting period,...
Page 47 - Secondly, that the venous blood returning from an inflamed limb, though less warm than the focus of inflammation, is warmer than the arterial blood supplied to the limb; and "Thirdly, that the venous blood returning from an inflamed limb is warmer than the corresponding current on the opposite side of the body. " Unquestionably, therefore, the inflammatory process involves a local production of heat.
Page 221 - This form attacks children more especially, from their seventh to their fifteenth year. 20. Fevers come to a crisis on the same days as to number on which men recover and die. For the mildest class of fevers, and those originating with the most favorable symptoms, cease on the fourth day or earlier; and the most malignant, and those setting in with the most dangerous symptoms, prove fatal on the fourth day or earlier. The first class of them as to violence ends thus: the second is protracted to the...
Page 9 - Do certain diseases in their progress obey fixed laws or rules, and can this be determined and displayed by the course of the temperature...
Page 64 - As a general rule the co-relation of pulse and temperature may be stated as follows, namely : — " An increase of temperature of ONE DEGREE above 98° Fahr. corresponds with an increase of TEN beats of the pulse per minute, as in the following table...
Page 245 - The temperature is a more accurate indication of the amount of tuberculosis and tuberculization than either the physical signs or the symptoms.
Page 245 - ... diagnosis. 7. By means of the temperature we can diagnose tuberculosis, even when during the whole course of the disease there are no physical signs indicative of tubercular deposit in any of the organs of the body...
Page 43 - ... following conclusions : 1st. An injury of the nervous system may produce in the parts, which then become paralyzed, either an increase or diminution of temperature. 2d. The sympathetic nerve and the cerebro-spinal nervous system appear not to be different one from the other, in this respect. 3d. The degree of temperature of paralyzed parts depends on the quantity of blood they receive • and this quantity varies according to the size of the arteries and capillaries of these parts.