Investigations ON CLINICAL THERMOMETRY: CONTINUOUS AND QUASI-CONTINUOUS TEMPERATURE RECORDS IN MAN AND ANIMALS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE.

Abstract

VALUE OF QUASI-CONTINUOUS TEMPERATURE RECORD METHOD IN STUDY OF TUBERCULOSIS. As illustrating the character of the temperature curves obtained from tuberculous patients we may take those obtained from patients treated at Addenbrooke's Hospital, at the Cambridge County Tuberculosis Dispensary, in sanatoria, or at one or other of the open-air colonies founded near Cambridge. We select these as here the patients could be kept under careful observation and any special treatment, reaction, and results noted at once; this allowed of their importance being properly appreciated. In Fig. 21 we have an exact reproduction, on a

Considerations for the measurement of core, skin and mean body temperatures

“…It is now appreciated that significant variations in both deep-body (Hunt, 1844;Wunderlich, 1869;Wunderlich and Seguin, 1871;Woodhead and Varrier-Jones, 1916;DuBois, 1941;Eichna et al, 1951;Taylor et al, 1994;Blatteis, 2007) and superficial tissue temperatures (Korpelainen et al, 1995;Lavery et al, 2004;Arora et al, 2008;Eglin et al, 2013) are associated with pathological states, and this is another reason why tissue temperatures are measured. Indeed, the extent of these thermal changes often reflects the severity of the condition and its prognosis.…”

“…Given existing reviews on body-temperature measurement (Woodhead and Varrier-Jones, 1916;Selle, 1952;Vale, 1981;Togawa, 1985;Brengelmann, 1987;Sawka and Wenger, 1988;Fulbrook, 1993;Ogawa, 1997;Moran and Mendal, 2002;Ring, 2006;Byrne and Lim, 2007;Pušnika and Miklaveca, 2009;Wartzek et al, 2011;Langer and Fietz, 2014;Werner, 2014), another contribution might seem unwarranted. However, following a presentation designed for students (Taylor, 2011), and arising from a debate on the cooling of hyperthermic individuals (Casa et al, 2010), it became apparent the assumed common knowledge on temperature measurement was not quite so common, nor could its existence be presumed.…”