Some effects of exposure to an environment of saturated air at mouth temperature

1964

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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The time course of the decline in sweating produced by wetting the skin

Brebner¹,

1964

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“…Elsewhere the skin is kept wet, and sweat production will be progressively impeded. The decline in maximum sweat production from wet skin proceeds exponentially with time (Brebner & Kerslake, 1964, 1968) and at lower rates of drive the suppression behaves similarly (Hertig, Riedesel & Belding, 1961;Brebner, Kerslake & Soper, 1962;Sargent, 1962). The rate of sweating from the wet skin should therefore be related not to the capsule sweat rate, 0, but to a time dependent function of it, 0.e-tlk.…”

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The relation between sweat rate and weight loss when sweat is dripping off the body

Brebner¹,

1969

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SUMMARY1. The relation between the rate of sweat production, S, and the rate of weight loss, W, has been examined under conditions in which the rate of evaporation was small.2. 9 could be found from TV provided that a film of liquid was maintained over the skin surface. This could be achieved initially by immersing the subject in water containing detergent. Thereafter the film was maintained so long as the rate of weight loss exceeded about 10 g/min.3. When the rate of weight loss was changing and the rate ofevaporation was constant, o could be calculated as + 2*5 W.4. When the subject was constantly sprayed with water while being weighed, the correction for W became negligible. In this case there was no lower limit to the sweat rate which could be measured, but spraying considerably reduced the accuracy of the measurement.5. The output of sweat from a ventilated capsule on the forearm correlated well with estimates of central sweating drive based on weight measurements corrected for hidromeiosis.

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The effects of soaking the skin in water at various temperatures on the subsequent ability to sweat

Brebner¹,

1968

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