THE HUNTER IN HEALTH 



THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY 



The external temperature of the body should 

 be equable, in other words one portion should 

 be just as warm as another, though if the 

 circulation is at all languid, those parts that 

 are the most distant from the centre of it, are 

 usually a little colder. The normal temperature 

 of a hunter, whilst at rest in the stable, ranges 

 from loo to loi degrees Fahr. with fractional 

 divergences either way. Exercise increases the 

 temperature probably several degrees, so that 

 a hunter, that has been galloped hard and 

 sweating, would probably have a temperature 

 of 104. The clinical thermometer is a most 

 useful appliance and ought to be in the hands 

 of every horseman and stud-groom. It consists 

 of a bulb containing mercury, and a stem with 

 a detached rod of mercury known as the 

 "index" or register. When the mercury ex- 

 pands in the bulb it causes the index to rise, 

 which then remains as an indicator of the 

 temperature. The clinical thermometer bears 

 on its stem the following whole numbers, 95, 

 100, 105, and 1 10. Between these numbers are 



103 



