198 Prof. S. Ringer and Mr. A. P. Stuart on the 



Date. 

 Jan. 12 

 „ 13 

 „ 14 



Amount of fall. 

 A fall of 0°-4 after 10 p.m 



0°-2 

 0°-8 



33 33 33 

 33 33 33 



On the following days a bath was given 

 Dec. 18 .... A fall of 0°-6 after 10 p.m 

 33 20 ... . „ o, 2 „ „ „ 

 „ 21 .... No fall after 10 



Jan. 1 „ „ 11 „ 



„ 6 ....AfaUofO°-2afterlO „ 



. . . . 



to the boy in the morning, 

 at 12 p.m. 



33 33 33 



10 



11 



0°-4 

 0°-2 



Observation discontinued 

 through the night. 



through the nigbt. 



11 „ 



Summary of this Table. 

 Observations recorded on ten days when no bath was taken : — 

 In 5 of these no fall after 10. 

 „ 1 a fall of 0°-2 „ „ 



33 ^ „ 0°'4 ,, „ 



33 ^ „ 0°*8 „ 



Observations recorded on 9 days when baths were taken in the 

 morning : — 



In 2 there was no fall after 10 to 11 p.m. 

 „ 4 a fall of o, 2 occurred „ „ 

 1 0°-4 



33 x 33 u ^ 33 33 33 



33 1 33 P 33 33 3 3 



1 1 °'0 



33 33 X v 33 33 33 



These two Tables may, we think, be fairly thrown together, for we can- 

 not understand how baths given in the morning should interfere with the 

 evening temperature. Thus we have 19 series of observations ; and in 7 

 of these no fall occurred after the chief influence of the meal had ceased. 



In 5 cases a fall of o, 2 occurred ; but we think a variation so slight 

 may be disregarded, as it might, and probably was often, caused by 

 some accidental circumstance, as the movement of the body in bed or 

 some similar cause — an assumption strengthened by the fact that this 

 slight decline was often noted only once, and at the time of the next ob- 

 servation the temperature had recovered itself. 



These observations, therefore, may be thrown together, giving the 

 result that in 12 of the 19 observations the food appears to have had no 

 influence on the evening fall. Of the remaining 7 observations, after 

 the supposed influence of the food had passed away, — 

 In 3 there was a fall of o, 4 

 „ 1 „ „ 0°-6 

 33 2 „ „ 0°-8 

 „ 1 „ „ i°-o 



