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between the pulse frequency and micturition was not known to me 

 wlien these measurements were made, no information concerning 

 micturition occurs. 



As a rule a day-curve for the mouth temperature or a series of 

 morning measurements do not present any similarity in appearance 

 with the corresponding pulse curves. As the temperature of the 

 mouth, in a person staying quietly in the ordinary temperature 

 indoors, shows, however, a tendency to vary together with the rectal 

 temperature, parallel curves can also in such cases be found for 

 the pulse and mouth temperature, as appears from the Fig. 2 c. 



The fluctuations are here much stronger than in the morning 

 curves, which follow an almost straight line, and the agreement 

 therefore appears more distinctly. It must however be remarked, 



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that the temperature in the room varied at the same time along a 

 corresponding curve, a circumstance not without importance in 

 considering the unusual harmonj' here between the two functions 

 examined. 



It is well-known, that the state of contraction of the peri- 

 pheral arteries varies with changes in position; this has been 

 shown by Oliver ^ for the radial and temporal arteries by direct 

 gauging of the calibre of the arteries, arteriometry. According to 

 Oliver the calibre is usually reduced in a recumbent position com- 

 pared with the readings in the active positions at about the same 

 time. On using the arteriometer of Oliver I have come to the 

 same result. 



Bouchard and others" have now confirmed that the rectal tem- 

 perature in recumbency is "some tenths" lower than in an upright 

 and sitting position; Benedict'^ has also found a higher temperature 

 in the upright than in the sitting position. I have been unable 

 however to confirm this. 



> George Oliver: Pulse-Gauging. London 1893. 



- Git. Oliver, 1. с p. 24. 



^ The American Journal of Pln'siology. Vol. XI, No. II, 1904. 



