NERVOUS CONTROL OF TEMPERATURE. 



861 



These discordant results have to be explained. It is worse than useless to 

 say that the effects are due to the removal of the regulating influence of 

 " heat centres " in the brain, centres whose very existence is problematical. 

 Observations upon the deep and surface temperature, and upon the amount 

 of moisture given off by the skin, are needed to show whether the changes in 

 temperature are due to disturbance in the production or in the loss of heat, 

 or more probably in both, The data upon these points are insufficient, but, 

 recently, such observations have been made by Pembrey, 4 in the case of two 



1 Quoted from Hutchinson, loc. cit. 



-Arch.f. Jclin. Chir., Berlin, 1868, Bd. ix. S. 161. 



3 Recorded by Lorain, " De la temperature du corps humain," tome i. p. 500. 

 4 "Proc. Physiol. Soc.," Journ. PhysioL. Cambridge and London, 1897, vol. xxi. ; 

 Brit. Med. Journ., London, 1897, vol. ii. p. 883. 



