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rature is at its maximum from 5 to 7 and from 9 to 10 p.m.; 
and at its minimum at from 3 to 3 and 8 to 10 a.m. With 
the dog, the maximum is from 1 to 2 and 3 to 8 p.m.; the 
minimum from 3 to 5 and 7 to 8 a.m. 
Muscular exertion causes an increase which may amount to 
1*3° above the temperature of rest; though it is maintained 
only for a short time, repose bringing it down to its normal 
standard in one hour, or at the latest three hours after the 
exercise. 
After dilating on the best instrument to employ, the hours 
at which the temperature should be taken, and the regions 
of the body most suitable for the application of the themo- 
meter, Signor Brusasco passes to the thermometric study of 
different diseases. 
Cattle plague. —The researches of Gerlach, Gamgee, San¬ 
derson, Ruef, Zangger, and others, on the thermic elevation in 
this disease, are already known. According to Gerlach, in 
young healthy cattle the temperature oscillates between 38 # 3° 
and 39*3° (Centigrade). Under the influence of the dis¬ 
ease it ascends to 41°, and even to 42° and a fraction, but 
does not exceed 42*2°. In inoculated animals, Sanderson 
observed the temperature to rise for two days before any 
other symptoms appeared. 
Epizootic aphthous fever. —Before the manifestation of any 
external symptom the temperature rises, attaining 42° in 
from one to two days, and does not diminish until the termi¬ 
nation of the eruptive period. 
Variola ovina. —According to the observations of Brusasco, 
the temperature is increased before shivering is exhibited; 
in from thirty-six to forty-eight hours it rises 1° to r3°, and 
on the second day is 41° to 42° and a fraction. When the 
disease is regular, the fever lessens from the commencement 
of the eruption by a complete defervescence, usually in 
twenty-four hours. In confluent variola the temperature 
falls more slowly and irregularly, only to ascend again at the 
beginning of the period of suppuration, becoming normal 
at the end of this period and the commencement of the 
stage of dessication. 
Anthrax. —The author saw the temperature mount to 42’6° 
in a cow twenty-four hours preceding death, but immediately 
before that event it fell to 38°. 
Acute glanders .—He also observed the temperature ascend 
in a continuous manner to 4T5° and 41*7°, and remain at 
this point for two to three days. In a less acute case, the 
oscillations, trifling in the preceding instance, were very 
marked. 
