Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-30
Temperature of the Body.

1t is well to know what raises and
what lowers the bodily temperature. In
summer we all want to keep as cool as
possible, and we should know what Will
tend not merely to make us feel cool,
but really to be cool
Except in sickness, when the temper
allure of the body is increased by many
degrees and is called fever, we are
never so hot rs at the moment we are
born The temperature of a ew-born
baby is higher than that of its mother,
rising to l02 F., but during the first
day il goes down rapidly as far as 80
and then rises again to little more
than the normal temperature of the
adult. With this exception age does not
change the temperature, which is IN
the normal man 9S.6 on the average.
The temperature varies as much as :
degrees in the "A hours. The minimum
is 97.J. and is reached at about a. NJ,
while the maximum, 99.5, is attained
at 4 o'clock in the afternoon 1t Is not
able that fasting or sleep does not al
ter these variations; those persons,
however, who work at night and rest
nv da. reverse the order of the varia-
tons in temperature. Thus bakers. who
WOIk dl IIShls nav NhN
uerature at 4 4. NJ, and the minimum
toward evening.
In tropical countries the average nor
NAL temperature is 1904, silShtiy hlsh-
or than in the temperate zones. In the
Arctic the normal temperature Is ION
or. Norwegians, who live in cold ell
mate, have an average temperature Oh
ga
These variations are cer'aIi's
due to the difference in the tempe1a-
tnre of the air. and not, as some nave
Thought to difference OF race, Tor .Noi@
wegians attain the same temperature DIS
natives when they live III the tropics.
Muscular labor has considerable el-
feet upon. the temperature ana may
raise il as much as two degrees oie
scientist observed that with normal OK
ercise the temperature went uF from
o7 I tn 100 In certain eXeephonal cdses
tho temuerature rises even more. y
,,,nner has been found to marx ioo
ofter a hard race. intellectual laoot
also causes a rise in temperature.
Weiss shows that a man sittlhg 10" II
to study hard With a temperature Oh 81
raises 1t one degree, TO rs, by Az ihiif-
utes OF brain work.
The maintenance of the temporary
about a certain standard III the wal II.
l,Inoaed. animals. Notwithstanding the
variations of external 'eiipei "'ai !,
proves the existence OF some hiiia =,
Internal regulator by which. the animal
fights against the tendency u iiiei
or diminish his own neat.
The resistance of warm FLOODED am
mails against cold is considerable. III
noIar regions these animals :,
seals musk oxen. dogs, ete.-wltfs'ano
temneratures Of 50 degrees below Aeio
rabituallv. and hansen reports thae ne
felt no great inconvenience Wheii .'io
,a,rnefature was less than III pelo".
trbe bady uses two means OF hSrtlne
ia diminishing the loss OF neat ny
notation and increasing Internal eoiii-
hustion. ,au,bt
,,;,,,nntion of radiation is hroushs
.honT nv the fur of animals ana ps
mems clothing. Besides. there Is coii
,ai1,t;.,r of the blood vessels. or d
Ammunition of the irrigation OF the skli''
which brings about eooiihs u
skin and as a consequence ueei
radiation.
Increase of combustion is brought
about by increase of muscular ACTIVITY.
which as we say. keeps us warm,
and by the eating of fats and othei
foods of high carbon content.
In summer or in tropical climates We
have to fight increase of temperature
which would arise from the invasion o.
the heat without or from oVercompas'
ton within.
The organism overcomes heat by III
creasing radiation and evaporation.
The dilation of the blood Nesseis
causes the blood 10 flow TO the surface
of the body. and if the temperature
without be not higher than that oil the
blood the loss by radiation is increased
But it is especially by loss OF water
that the warm blooded animals pre-
Vent the rise of temperature OF t.ie
body. The cold produced by eVapofa-
ton is very great, for the loss OF ono
gram of water takes up about oso SINAI
calories. If, for instance, 4 man eNap-
crate a quart of water (by perspiratiofl
and evaporation through the iuhss) III