628 FUNCTIONS OF ANIMALS. 



Dr Davy ascertained also that arterial blood in a healthy ani- 

 mal is 1 or 1.5 hotter than venous blood. 



The following observations were made on a female : 



Heat in the female bladder, . . 101^ 



,,. vagina, * >";' 101 



rectum, . * ;. . 100 J 



mouth, . .,* 99 



arm-pit, . . . 97 e 61 



According to Dr Berger, when an animal is in a dormant state, 

 it loses three-fourths of its natural heat, reckoning from 32. * 

 In asphyxia, syncope, gangrene, and sphacelus, the heat of the 

 body diminishes. During a pleurisy in Minorca the heat of the 

 patient was from 102 to 104.f A soldier at Colchester, while 

 ill of the Walcheren intermittent fever, had his skin of the tem- 

 perature 102. But after the affusion of cold water it sunk to 

 97. The headach disappeared, and a gentle moisture came 

 out on the skin.} In intermittents, according to Schwenkie, the 

 heat of the skin varies from 100 to 108, while De Haen states 

 the heat in continued fevers to be as high as 109. [| Dr Currie 

 states from his own observations that in scarlatina the heat of the 

 skin varies from 106 to 112.1F While, according to Chisholm, 

 it varies in inflammatory fever from 99 to 112.** Dr Berger 

 states the heat of an abscess in the thigh at 100ff 



Such are the most important facts which have been ascertain- 

 ed respecting the heat of the human body in health and disease. 

 I shall now state the temperatures of various inferior animals, as 

 they have been collected by the industry of Dr Berger.} t 



Apes. Young tiger, 99. 



Simia Aygula (arm-pit), 1 04 C .5 and Jackal, 101. 



101. John Davy. Bat, 100 to 101. 



Callitriche (rectum), 96. Viverra Monzos, 103. 



Dog aged three months, 103.064. 



Carnivorous Quadrupeds. An adult male cat, 103.604.|| |J 

 Mean heat of these animals, 



103.25. Gnawers. 



Cat, 101 to 102. Pulse, 100. Mean heat, 102.4. 



Panther, 102. Rabbit, 99.5. 



* Memoires de la Societe de Physique, et d'Hist. Nat. de Geneve, vii. 310. 



f Edin. Essays, ii. Art. 29. J Berger, Ibid. p. 314. 



Haller, Elem. Phys. ii. 36. || Haller, Ibid. 



1 Reports, ii. 428. ** Berger, ubi autem, p. 313. ft Ibid. p. 317. 



J{ Mem. de la Societe de Phys. et de'Hist. Nat. de Geneve, vi. 310. 

 $ Despretz, Ann. de Chim. et de Phys. xxvi. 338. 



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