DISCUSSION OF RESULTS. 



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Experiment of January 13, 1911, with V. G, In this experiment, a ther- 

 mometer was used in the rectum at a depth of 9.5 centimeters; also, as in the 

 previous experiment, a thermometer was placed in the center of the palms and 

 another at the base of the second finger, with the hands clasped and tied with 

 bandages. The space between the hands was warmed for 5 minutes before 

 the experiment by a hot- water bottle at a temperature of 40 C. 



During the experiment the subject occasionally fell asleep, but sat quietly 

 the remainder of the time. The two thermometers in the hand gave readings 

 which agree very well with each other, and while the parallelism with the 

 records of the rectal thermometer is not perfect, there was a tendency for the 

 temperature of the hand to fall as the temperature in the rectum fell. The 

 slight rise between 3 h 19 m p. m. and 3 h 41 m p. m. indicated by the curve for 

 the rectal thermometer is also seen in the curves for the thermometers in the 

 hand. 



The measurements for this experiment may be found represented in fig. 22, 

 with the designations of the curves as for previous experiments. 



37.4 C 



37.2 



37.0 



36.8 



36.6 



36.4 



1.40 P.M. 2.00 2.20 2.40 3.00 3.20 3.40 4.00 4.20 4.40 



Fig. 22. Temperature curves for experiment of January 13, 1911, with V. G. 



Experiment of January 14, 1911, with C. H. H.In this experiment the 

 subject sat in the chair, and both the deep and the shallow rectal thermometers 

 were used, the former inserted to the depth of 9.5 centimeters, and the latter 

 6 centimeters. The temperature of the hands was taken by two thermome- 

 ters as in previous experiments, the hands being clasped and bandaged as 

 usual. Still another thermometer was placed between the crossed legs above 

 the knees. No hot-water bottle was used. 



The initial fall in the rectal temperature, noted in practically all of the 

 experiments, is here very well marked. The curves representing the tempera- 

 ture in the hands remained fairly parallel throughout, but did not follow the 

 curve of the rectal thermometer. On the other hand, the temperature of 

 the upper leg, while requiring a very long time to reach equilibrium, followed 

 the rectal temperature with remarkable constancy and accuracy when it had 

 finally reached the upper level. An effort was made in other experiments to 

 measure the body-temperature between the crossed legs, but these attempts 



