The clinical thermoscope and uniformity of means of observation : two notes / by Edward Seguin.

  • Seguin, Edward, 1812-1880.
Date:
1875
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    THE CLINICAL THERMOSCOPE. An Instrument of Diagnosis in Physic and Surgery; a Monitor in the Nursery; a Test in the Physiological Laboratory; also a Necrometer in the Dead Chamber. By Edward Seguin, M. D., New York. Mr. President and Confreres: My excuse for occupying the al- lotted ten minutes of your time with this device of mine, is the growing prevalence in diagnosis of the Hippocratic method of ob- servation by the body-temperature, instead—without exclusion, however—of the Galenic, by the pulse-beat. Such solemn Re- naissance in onr art calls out many more workers—that is the rea- son of my addressing you ; and demands some new instruments— that is the reason I have made the thermoscope, intended as a quicker and more delicate test of differential temperatures than the thermometer; and less to give the degrees of the heat, than the ve- locity of its radiation. This little instrument is a simple application to medical diag- nosis of the principle of physics on which Rumford and Leslie constructed their differential thermometer. DIAGRAM—HALF-SIZE. The clinical thermoscope is a glass tube, T, a quarter of a line bore, seven inches long, closed at one end by a bulb, B, nine lines in diameter, and open at the other end, mouth-like, M, by a delicate enlargement of the rod. In this state, it contains nothing but air (Several other forms have been tried, more fitting to the