Clinical thermometer Sentence Examples
Instead of the close protection from the outer air, the respirators, and the fancy diets of our fathers, the modern poitrinaire camps out in the open air in all weathers, is fed with solid food, and in his exercise and otherwise is ruled with minute particularity according to the indications of the clinical thermometer and other symptoms. The almost reckless reliance on climate, which, at Davos for instance, marked the transition from the older to the modern methods, has of late been sobered, and supplemented by more systematic attention to all that concerns the mode of life of the invalid.
To the establishment of this new conception the improvement and general use of the clinical thermometer gave invaluable advantages.
He is best known for inventing the short-stemmed clinical thermometer and revising ' The System Of Medicine ', the doctor's bible.
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