SEPTEMBER, 1878. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
THERMOMETRY OF THE DOMESTICATED ANIMALS, 
AND ITS USE IN VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
BY AUG. ZUNDEL. 
Translated from “ Vortraqe fur Thierarzte .” Series /, Heft III ., by 
G. A. Banham, M.R.C. V.S. 
The importance to wliicli the exact measurement of the tem¬ 
perature of the body has of late years attained, and the general 
value of the thermometer in veterinary, as well as in human medi¬ 
cine, has induced me to place before the reader a short sketch of 
the phenomena in the domestic animals. 
If we assume that the application of the thermometer is often 
over-estimated in the daily practice, as it frequently appears to be, 
yet we acknowledge on many occasions, the indisputable utility of 
measuring the temperature, since by this means, we ascertain many 
occurrences and changes in the organism, which would otherwise 
have been delayed to a much later period by ordinary symptoms. 
The thermometer has been the means of ascertaining many scien¬ 
tific results, which led to the explanation and unravelling of many 
bidden and obscure patho-physiological questions. Heat is a 
physipal agent in all the physiological and pathological phenomena 
