1612 SANTORIO, Santorio [SANCTORIUS] (1561 – 1636)
Commentaria in artem medicinalem Galeni.
First printed mention of the air thermometer, an instrument that played a vital part in the creation of static medicine. This device was similar to Galileo’s open-air thermoscope, of which Santorio may have known, but…
GMN 572.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/348
1740 MARTINE, George (1702 – 1741)
Essays medical and philosophical.
First important work on clinical thermometry, and the only scientific treatment of the subject before Wunderlich.
GMN 2671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3509
1797 CURRIE, James (1756 – 1805)
Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and febrile diseases.
Currie was among the first in Britain to use cold water packs in the treatment of fever. He made some original observations on the clinical use of the thermometer. It was Currie who first edited Robert Burns’s Collect…
GMN 1988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3810
1811 NORTH, Elisha (1771 – 1843)
A treatise on a malignant epidemic, commonly called spotted fever.
First book on cerebrospinal meningitis; in it North recommended the use of the clinical thermometer, not in general use until the time of Wunderlich. For more information on this book, see the article by F. L. Pleadwe…
GMN 4676 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/944
1868 WUNDERLICH, Carl Reinhold August (1815 – 1877)
Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten.
This work on temperature in disease laid the foundation of modern knowledge regarding clinical thermometry. Wunderlich reportedly took over a million measurements from 25,000 people. Temperatures ranged from 97.2 to 9…
GMN 2677 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3542
1870 ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)
Medical thermometry.
Allbutt introduced the modern clinical thermometer.
GMN 2679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3555
1985 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
Medical thermometry--a short history.
Available from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 11533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13732
