Manual of clinical diagnosis / by Otto Seifert and Friedrich Müller.

Date:
1887
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Credit: Manual of clinical diagnosis / by Otto Seifert and Friedrich Müller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CHAPTER II. TEMPERATURE. The temperature of the body is generally taken either in the axillary space or in the rectum [and under the tongue]. In the rectum it is about 0.5°-!° higher than in the axilla. The temperature of the healthy individual measures ' in the axilla between36.2° C. [97-i° F-] and 37.5° C. [99.5° F.]. The. highest temperature is late in the afternoon, and the lowest, very early in the morning. An elevation of tem- perature can temporarily occur in consequence of bodily exertion, taking food, hot-baths, etc. A continuous ele- vation of temperature occurs in fever. According to Wunderlich we have : The temperature of collapse, 36° C. [96.8° F.]. Sub-febrile temperature 37-5°-38° C. [99.5° F.-ioo.4° F.]. Slight fever 38°-38.s° C. [ioo.4°-ioi.3° F.]. Moderate fever' 39° C. [102.2° F.] morning ; 39.5° [103.1° F.] evening. Considerable fever 39.5° C. [103.1° F.] morning ; 40.5° C. [104.9° F.] evening. High fever over 39.S°C. [103.1° F.] mornmg; over 40.5° C. [104.9° F-] evening. ^ iliT^der to convert from one scale to the other, the folloNving formula may be used : ^ST C = I n R = f n + 32° F,