Infantile temperatures in health and disease / by William Squire.

  • William Stevens Squire
Date:
1869
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Credit: Infantile temperatures in health and disease / by William Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the full period without undue difficulty at 1.30 p.m., the temperature taken in the rectum at 2 o^clock, was 98°*4, the child having been but slightly covered in a not very warm room; the surface generally was colder, but at 3 o’clock after the child had been washed and dressed, 98°*4 was easily obtainable in the folds of integument at the neck. At 8 p.m. the temperature taken at the neck was still 98°*4, and next morning the same, though the night had been passed sleeping in a bassinet; little or no food had been taken as the child seemed too well nourished to have much disposition to suck. At 11 a.m., after washing and dressing, the surface temperature in the neck was 98°*8. During the month the supply of breast milk had to be supplemented by the bottle, but the temperature was always found close upon 98°*4. The child was weaned in the second month, and after some varia¬ tions the temperatures taken during a week were all nearly the same. Of two children born prematurely, both at the period of eight months, the one, a boy (Case 2), twelve hours after birth had a temperature of 98°’7, very nearly what it was at birth; the next day the rectal temperature was 99°, though only a little water and sugar of milk had been given; a wet-nurse was then obtained, and after some irregu¬ larity at first, the temperature for several days continued between 98 J° and 99°: the other, a girl (Case 3), having the extreme of high temperature at birth, was considerably below the average on the second and third days after; on the fifth and sixth days there was a temperature of 98°, though the advantage of suitable nourishment was wanting. The extreme instance of low temperature at birth (Case 4) was a girl, supposed to be beyond the full period, and certainly of full size; the cord was in a tight knot, and some little time elapsed before respiration was perfectly established; six hours after birth the temperature in recto was still 98°, the sur¬ face had become warm and of good colour, nothing had been swallowed and no urine passed; next day there was a rise of half a degree; after that, the supply of breast-milk being very free, 99° was always obtainable, whether the child were
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