Author: WUNDERLICH, C. A.
Title: Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten. Zweite vermehrte Auflage. Mit 38 Holzschnitten und 7 Tafeln.
Description: Leipzig, Verlag von Otto Wigand, 1870. sm 4to. W. 38 textills. & 7 fold. tables. Contemp. 2 tones pebbled cloth [purple and black] (edges of covers lightly rubb.). [n4, 1-26 in 8s, 27 in 4]. (VIII, 423, I (blank) pp.). 2nd improved edition. Hirsch V, 1002/4: Garrison, p. 431: 'Wunderlich made his book a permanent scientific classic. He found fever a disease and left it a symptom.' comp. G&M. 2677 [1st ed. 1868]: 'This classic on temperature in disease laid the foundation of modern knowledge regarding clinical thermometry.'. Waller I, 10419: Norman Coll., 2268: 'W. 's study coincided with the discoveries of microbial causes of disease and with scientific investigations on the nature body heat. Henceforth the recording of the temperature and the pulse and respiratory rates rapidly became routine in medical practise.':

Keywords: internal medicine fevers koorts thermometers W20