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

  • Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich
Date:
1871
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Credit: On the temperature in diseases : a manual of medical thermometry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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THE TEANSLATOU'S PEEEACE. I REGRET the delay which has occurred in the publication of this volume. It has been partly due to the alterations necessary to make the translation correspond with the Second German Edition, and partly to the nature of the work itself, which abounds with numerals and foreign proper names. The translation has been done by me in the midst of other engagements, and with somewhat feeble health. Some few Germanisms and a few errors of the press have, it is to be feared, escaped notice. As to the rest, I have not aimed at fine writing, but simply at conveying the Author's meaning, as I under- stood him, to the Enghsh reader. Professor Wunderlich, in a letter acknowledging the receipt of the first eight sheets, stated that he had no additional matter which he could incorporate with this Edition, the whole of his time being devoted to the supervision of three military hospitals for the wounded in the present Eranco-German war. The Centigrade scale has been retained for two reasons— ist. Because in this way the original diagrams have been pre- sented without any alteration, except some slight improvements in their execution, for which I have to thank the artist, Mr. Tuffen West; and 2nd. Because the convenience of this scale will probably shortly
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