Thermometric observations in fever / by Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw.

  • Grimshaw, Thomas Wrigley, 1839-1900.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Thermometric observations in fever / by Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The following report of the results of observations on temperature in cases admitted into Cork-street Hospital, may not be without interest at the present time, when the temperature of the body in disease is attracting so much attention. In most of the following cases the temperature and pulse have alone been noted, but in all cases at pre- sent under observation the rate of respiration is also being recorded, so that in future when I may have the honour of continuing these reports in The Press, I shall have more complete records to lay before your readers. The obser - vations in these cases have been registered but once a day in each case, my reason for not having taken them oftener being, that I do not consider it of much practical import- ance, for in using the thermometer as a constant means of assisting our diagnosis, it would generally be impracticable to examine our patient’s temperature more than once daily, just as we usually employ our stethoscope but once in twenty-four hours on each case. The faot is, it is only when a case has become serious that we give it two or more visits a day. The object of making these observa- tions, upon which I am now reporting, is to test the value cf the thermometer as a practical help to the formation of our diagnosis, and not merely as a means of scientific inquiry. I am afraid the value of the thermometer as a