On the temperature in diseases : a manual of medical thermometry.

  • Wunderlich, C. A. (Carl August), 1815-1877.
Date:
1871
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    ' Annalen des Charite-Krankenliauses/ 1854, p. 333; Wind-el, Temperatur Studien bei der Geburt und im Wochenbctt ^^ (in the ' IMonatsschrift fi,ir'Geburtskunde/ 1862^ Bd. 30, p. 409, and 1863, Bd. 22, p. 321); Griinewaldt, Uber die Eigenwiirme Gesunder und Kranker Wochnerinnen/^ in the ^ Petersburg Med. Zeitung/ 1863, Bd. 5. p. I ; ''Oscar IFoIf, Beitriige zur Kenutnisz der Eigenwarme im Wochenbett, Marburg Thesis, 1866; Baum- /elder, Beitrag zu den Beobachtungen der Korperwarme, der Puis und Respirations, frequenz im Wochenbette/' Leipzig Thesis, 1867; Schroder (loc. cit., and especially in ' Schwangerschaft, Geburt, und Wochenbett/ 1867, p. 117; Squire, in the 'Lancet/ 1867, No. 10, and in the 'Obstetrical Transactions/ vol. ix, p. 129.^ § 15.—The Influence of Rest, of Muscular Activity, and of Worh (Arbeit) upon the Temperature, The contrast between movement and rest, as regards their respec- tive influence upon temperature, is by no means a simple fact, nor can it be elucidated by a bare recital of facts. It has been shown by Helmholtz that the contraction of a muscle is accompanied by a rise of temperature, and in later times especially, Solger, Ileidenhain, Meirstein, and Thiry have investigated it, and found, amongst other results, that in the flrst moment of stimula- tion the muscle itself actually becomes a little colder (negative warmth-variation, afterwards contradicted by Heidenhain), and then begins to grow warmer, but that the degree of warmth generated is never entirely proportionate to the mechanical work done; and, ' Dr. Squire's temperatures were taken in the vagina. After the sixth month of pregnancy he finds the temperature to be a little over 99° F. (=37-3C.). He considers the vaginal temperature and the axillary to differ by only i° or i° except during labour. He found the temperature to gradually rise till the birth of the child, and soon after to slowly decline during the 24 hours after, to normal, or even below it. The most constant disturbance ushers in, and accompanies the formation of milk—it attains a certain prominence 48 hours after delivery. As soon as milk flows freely there is a considerable fall. He objects to the axilla as not furnishing trustworthy details after labour. It is probable that he omitted to dose the axilla previousli/, as recommended by Wunderlich. The whole paper, however, is well worthy of study.— [Trans.]