Temperature of the Human Body in Health. 201 



Name. 



Date. 



Dinner 

 hour. 



Rise in temperature 

 after dinner. 





Dec. 10 



12 



o 



0*0 





„ 21 





04 





» 7 





Constant rail. 





» 9 



>> 



0*0 





„ 8 





0*0 





„ 9 





6 









u u 





„ 11 





04 





19 





0'2 





u 5 





o-o 





» 6 





00 





„ 7 





0-6 









Average rise o, 18 



Thus in seven of these twelve observations no appreciable rise took 

 place. 



In five the temperature rose, the average rise being o, 4. Breakfast 

 was taken at 6 a.m., and no further food allowed afterwards until 12. It 

 may be objected, in respect of these observations, that the influence of the 

 breakfast had not passed away by dinner time, and that the temperature 

 elevated by this meal was maintained by the dinner. As the influence 

 of the breakfast may not have passed off* by dinner time these observa- 

 tions are not so trustworthy in the settlement of this question of the 

 influence of food on the temperature as those made on Mountain. We 

 give them, however, for what they are worth, believing they serve in some 

 degree to corroborate our previous conclusions. 



It is, however, right to refer to some observations in which a very 

 considerable rise occurred after a late breafast. 



These were made on three persons in ill-health. One man, 35 years 

 of age, suffered from hemiplegia ; another, 32 years, with hemiplegia 

 and dilated heart; and the third, 21 years old, was the victim of some 

 obscure disease. His spleen was very much enlarged, and he occasionally 

 passed large quantities of blood with his urine. These patients abstained 

 from food from tea (5 p.m.) one day till breakfast on the following 

 day, taken either at 10 a.m. or a little later. 



These observations, for the sake of clearness, are thrown into a Table. 

 The first column shows the time before breakfast the temperature was 

 taken; the second gives the temperature of the body at the time of 

 commencing each observation ; the third shows the amount of the rise 

 before breakfast ; the fourth gives the rise after breakfast ; and the fifth 

 column shows the duration of the rise. 



