On the normal temperature of the body in infancy and childhood / by James Patterson Cassells, M.D., M.R.C.S., Lond.

  • Cassells, James Patterson, 1837-1884.
Date:
1867
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Credit: On the normal temperature of the body in infancy and childhood / by James Patterson Cassells, M.D., M.R.C.S., Lond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    asleep, had a temperature of 97°, and the co-relation of while respiration 30, and pulse 110 per minute. Diagram No. 4. is the record of twenty-seven observations of the temperature of the body, taken morning and evening, on the same child, and under the same conditions with the co- relation of the respiration and pulse. Proceeding to analyse this table, some points of interest are noticeable, and attention is directed to the diurnal variation in the range of the temperature and the co-relating variation of the respiration and pulse. The greatest variation in the heat being 21°, and the least 1°; the greatest variation in the respu-ation being 10, and the least 1 per minute, while the gTeatest variation in the same time of the pulse was 10, and the least, 2 jDulsations. The highest morning temperature was 98t°, and occurred on the 8th of June, the co-relation of respiration being 28, and pulse 120 per minute, the heat of the room being 70° Fah. The lowest morning temperature 97° on the 12th June; the co-relation of respiration 24 and pulse 110; the heat of room 68° Fah,; and the hour and duration of each experiment the same. The highest evening temperature was 97° on the 7th June; co-relation of respiration 22, and pulse 120; temperature of room 70° Fah.; hour 10 p.m. The lowest evening temperature was 96° on the 11th June : co-relation of respiration 24, and pulse 112; temperature of room 68° Fah.; hour 11 p.m.; the duration of each experiment being the same. The mean of 16 observations of the temperature in the morning is 971 ,, 11 „ „ „ M evening 96^ 16 „ respiration ,, morning 26 ^ >g „ 11 „ » J, ». evening 23 ( g „ 16 „ ,, pulse „ morning 1161 | „ 11 „ „ „ evening 109 ^ S The mean diurnal variation in the temperature of the body being j;. The curves of the temperature, respu-ation, and pulse, in