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History of the Thermometer

  • Grodzinsky E
  • Sund Levander M
Springer International Publishing, (2020), 23-35
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21886-7_3
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The temperature of the human body has been used as a diagnostic sign since the earliest days of clinical medicine. The earliest thermal instruments were developed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1665, it was suggested that the melting point of ice...

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Grodzinsky, E., & Sund Levander, M. (2020). History of the Thermometer. In Understanding Fever and Body Temperature (pp. 23–35). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21886-7_3

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