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Q J Med 2002; 95: 251-252
© 2002 Association of Physicians

Historical note

A brief history of the clinical thermometer

J.M.S. Pearce

Emeritus Consultant Neurologist, Anlaby

Of the many tools and instruments regarded as essential to the clinical examination, none has had such widespread application as the clinical thermometer. In the time of Hippocrates, only the hand was used to detect the heat or cold of the human body, although fever and chills were known as signs of morbid processes. In Alexandrine medicine, the pulse was observed as an index of disease, superseding the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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