80 



Messrs. Parkes and Wollowicz on the 



[Recess, 



If the mean temperature at 2, 4, 6, and 8 o'clock, when the wine was 

 acting most on the pulse, are placed side by side, we have, — 



Hours. 



Temperature. 



Water period. 



Wine period. 



2 P.M 



97-98 



97-90 





9770 



97-68 



6 P.M 



97-82 



97-88 



8 P.M 



98-10 



97-66 



The temperatures of the three first hours are practically identical, and 

 as already said, the rise at 8 o'clock in the water period seems to us acci- 

 dental, i. e. as dependent on two exceptional high temperatures, which 

 raised the mean amount. In the other 5 hours the mean temperature was 

 four times slightly higher in the water, and once in the wine period. 



The result of all the observations was that, in the water period of ten 

 days, the mean temperature was 97°* 726, and in the wine period was 

 97°'56, or 0°* 166 less, a difference so slight as probably to fall within the 

 limits of unavoidable error. The mean of the first five days, with 10 

 ounces of wine, was 97°'526 ; the mean of the last five days, with 20 

 ounces of wine, was 97°"590, proving that doubling the amount of wine 

 caused no lowering of mean temperature, and probably no rise, as the 

 difference is so slight. 



We conclude that in health the apparent heat after wine must be 

 owing, as in the case of alcohol and brandy, rather to subjective feel- 

 ings connected with the quickened circulation than with an actual rise 

 of temperature ; but that, on the other hand, wine in the above quantities 

 causes no appreciable lowering of temperature. 



Third Period. Temperature of Axilla after wine. 











Hours. 











Mean of 



Days. 























6 A.M. 



8 A.M. 



10 A.M. 



12 noon. 



2 P.M. 



4 P.M. 



6 P.M. 



8 P.M. 



10 P.M. 



the days. 



21st day ... 



97-2 



97-4 



98-0 



98-3 



992 



98-4 



98-6 



97-6 



97-6 



98 



22nd day . . 



97-4 



97-4 



98'2 



97-8 



98-2 



97-8 



98-0 



97-4 



970 



97-6 



23rd day. . . 



97-6 



97-6 



98-0 



98-0 



98-4 



98-0 



97-8 



98-0 



98-2 



97-9 



24th day... 



97-2 



97-4 



97-6 



97-6 



98-2 



97-6 



98-0 



97-6 



97-0 



97-5 



25th day... 



97-8 



98-0 



97-8 



98-4 



99-2 



98-0 



98-2 



97-6 



97-2 



98-0 



26th day... 



97-0 



97-0 



98-2 



98-4 



98-8 



97-6 



97-8 



97-8 



97-4 



97-7 



27th day... 



97-0 



96-8 



97-8 



98-4 



99-8 



98-6 



98-0 



976 



97-0 



97-8 



28th day... 



97-0 



97-0 



97-4 



980 



98-6 



98-2 



98-0 



97-8 



97-6 



97-7 



29th day... 



97-2 



97-0 



97-6 



97-6 



98-0 



97-6 



98-0 



98-4 



98-2 



97-7 



30th day... 



97-4 



97-6 



98-0 



97-4 



98-2 



97-8 



98-0 



97-8 



97-6 



97-8 



Means 



97-28 



97-32 



86 



97-99 



98-66 



9796 



98-04 



97-76 



97-48 



97-86 



In this period the diurnal variations were almost identical with the 

 others, and the mean temperature of the whole period was practically the 

 same as that of the first ten days. 



