THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XLVI. 
No.541. 
JANUARY, 1873. 
Fourth Series. 
No. 217. 
Communications and Cases. 
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL THER¬ 
MOMETRY. 
By G. Fleming, M.R.C.Y.S., Royal Engineers. 
The subject of thermometry appears to be attracting a 
considerable amount of attention among those veterinary 
surgeons who are anxious to avail themselves of any accessory 
means which may enable them to perfect their knowledge of 
diseased conditions, and the best mode of ascertaining when 
these conditions arise, on what they depend, and when their 
variations can be earliest noted. Within a somewhat brief 
period, the thermometer has become an important instrument 
in the hands of the scientific pathologist,—human and veteri¬ 
nary ; but it must be confessed that the science of thermo¬ 
metry, if we can rank it as such at the present time, is yet in 
its infancy, so far as the latter is concerned at any rate. 
Nevertheless, well-educated and observant veterinary 
surgeons are devoting themselves zealously to the task of 
accumulating facts and observations relative to this matter; 
and in the numerous Continental journals some valuable and 
interesting researches are from time to time published which 
will eventually go a long way in not only placing this science 
on a reliable basis, but indicate to what extent, and under 
what circumstances, the practitioner may resort to it with 
advantage in the prevention or treatment of disease. 
One of the latest contributors to this department of clinical 
medicine, or rather to the physiological aspects of thermo- 
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