Thermometric observations on pneumonia / by Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw.

  • Grimshaw, Thomas Wrigley, 1839-1900.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Thermometric observations on pneumonia / 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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    Diagram III. Pabke's Eanoe. where no treatment was employed but a few leeches. I only give the mean temperature for each day, from which it will be seen that the highest mean was reached on the fourth day.* I have now to add the experience of another observer, before I detail the results of my o^vn observations. Since the greater por- tion of the materials for this paper were arranged and the most of it committed to writing, an important paper by Dr. Maclagan of Dundee, on the thermometric range in pneumonia has been pub- lished in the current number (February, 1869) of the Edinhui'gh Medical Journal. This article escaped my notice until a week ago, and owing to its vague title, “ Thermometrical Observations,” I did not, when I first noticed it, examine it as carefully as I should have done, if I had knoAvn that it referred especially to the disease under consideration. The conclusions of Dr. Maclagan do not altogether (though pretty closely) accord Avith those arrived *at either by the previously mentioned observers or by myself. Dr. Maclagan’s observations should have an interest Avhich none others have, except the case recorded by Dr. Parkes already noticed, • At the time this paper was read before the Medical Association, the author was under a misapprehension with regard to the range given by Dr. Parkes, which led him into some errors in comparing it with the results of his own observations ; therefore those who heard the paper read and may chance to meet it again in this form, may 6nd some apparent discrepancies between the two statements, which 1 think it necessary thus to explain.