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THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY. 



The Testing of Clinical Thermometers. 



By Charges Rice. 



The clinical thermometer is an important factor in the diagnosis and prognosis of 

 disease at the present day. Without its aid the approach or advent of numerous dan- 

 gerous diseases or pathological conditions cannot be recognized with certainty, until 

 the disease or condition has advanced to a stage where it may become less amenable 

 to treatment, and where the result depends largely upon the vital resources of the 

 patient, which might have been materially fortified if the physician or surgeon could 

 have utilized the information conveyed by a reliable thermometer. 



The general public scarcely realizes the extent to which the business of manufac- 

 turing clinical thermometers has progressed at the present time. While, some twenty- 

 five years ago, the clinical thermometer was looked upon rather as a curiosity and 



