Observations on the temperature of the body in the insane / by T. S. Clouston.

  • Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.
Date:
[1868]
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Credit: Observations on the temperature of the body in the insane / by T. S. Clouston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    I v a C^u^p/C [From the Journal of Mental Science for April, 1868>] 3r OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY IN THE INSANE, By T. S. CLOUSTON, M.D., / • Medical Superintendent of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Asylum, Carlisle. When 1 was engaged a short time ago in trying to determine accurately the effects of certain medicines on maniacal and epileptic patients, the temperature of the body in those patients was one of the things noted by me; and being un- able to find in any book the normal standard in the in- sane, T made and analysed 2000 observations of tem- perature, so that I might have a standard with which to compare my cases. I examined and noted the temperature of all the patients in this asylum, using the thermometer recommended by Dr. Aitken. I took the temperature in the axilla, and my object being a practical one, instead of examining the patients at the times when the maximum and minimum heat is usually found, viz., imme- diately after waking, and at midnight, I did so between ten and 12 o’clock in the morning, and between nine and ten o’clock at night. The patients here all get up at 6.15 a.m., and go to bed at 8 p.m. Perhaps those hours will, on the whole, be found more useful and convenient than any others for the medical officers of most asylums, if any of them should ever refer to those observations for a standard