BY DR. OSCAR KATZ. 555 



majority o£ cases, as noted in the aforementioned table. Apart 

 from these, I can offer several examples where only initial and 

 final temperatures were taken. All the examples that may 

 thus be utilised, number nineteen. The following are the figures 

 as compared with one another in the different instances :- 

 40^0 -39-6 : 39-2 -39-67 : 39-6_40-6 : 39-3-41-0 

 38-9 -39-6 : S9-1 -40-2 : 39-2-39-15 : 39-4-400 

 39.05-39-4.5 : 38-8.5-40-0 : 39-1-40-9 : 39-8-39-6 

 39-8 -41-25 : 39-0 -39-9 : 38-8-3965 : 39-9-41-7 

 39.8 _40-2 : 39-6 —41-2 : 40-0—38-4 : 

 In fifteen cases, then, out of nineteen, the body-temperature was 

 found to be higher at the end than at the beginning. Taking the 

 mean out of each of these two series of fifteen observations we 

 arrive at the figures 39-3-40-355; the difference is thus 1-055 C. 

 In four cases out of the above nineteen the final temperature was 

 lower than the beginning. Taking, again, the mean out of each of 

 the two series of four observations, we obtain the figures 39-75- 

 39-19 that is a difference of 056° C. in favourof the final tempera- 



ture 



From this, therefore, we may deduce that, as a rule, the final 

 body-temperature is higher than the initial by about V C. on the 



averagje. 



I nmy add the initial temperatures of eleven more cases, withoat 

 any corresponding final temperatures. They were 39-9, 39-85, 40-2, 

 40 0, 39-45, 39-3, 40-1, 39-4, 38-7, 39-0, 39-6. The final tempera- 

 ture in one case, without any initial temperature taken, was 41-J5. 



Although the temperatures which the air showed during the course of the 

 experiments recorded above (Table III), may be regarded as havmg only a 

 secondary meaning in the judgment of the results obtained it is ]ust a 

 well to gL a number of figures as they were noted, f They show here and 

 there marked differences (see ne xt page) :— . 



*Note on the Respiration.-The breathing, shortly before death is very 

 much accelerated. In one instance, two minutes before the death of h 

 rabbit, I have found it to be forty-six to I minute ; in another mstance, ten 

 minutes before death, forty-four to i minute. 



t These fibres are also put do.^n in connection with ';f^^'^ ''f^^'^^l''''^^^^^ 

 quantity of bacteria in the blood of rabbits, some time after their death of chicken-cholera, 



vide above. 



