Human Skin Temperature and Its Relevance in Physiology and Clinical Assessment

摘要: The temperature of the human body has been widely used as an index illness since antiquity. hand experienced physician laid upon skin could provide much useful information about a patient and course illness. Eventually, more objective assessment was possible clinical thermometer (much we know it today) developed during last century. This instrument rapidly became firmly established this extract from work 1882 shows — “It (the thermometer) is now in daily, nay hourly, use every hospital London, ranks importance with stethoscope. A doctor without his like sailor compass”.1