The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03
Heat Production and Heat
Dissipation in the Body,
DR.. Edw. E. York, DC. Phi. e

DR.. Edw. E. Yerk, DC. Phi, c.
want to make this statement: that
certain conclusions are drawn and
that these conclusions are based mn
on facts with which practically ali
Psychologists agree and which facts
are thoroughly In accord with Chin.
practic Philosophy. / will give Won
nothing as facts that cannot be bscl-
ed up by any standard authority on
physiology. I will express this as an
opinion, relying upon logic alone for
the conclusions that are drawn. Yon
will be able to discriminate which Of
the statements made are proved facts
and which are merely the application
of those ideas Chiropractically in the
explanation of fevers.
feel that the explanation Of fever
is important, because such a wide va
riety of cases we come in contact with
show an increased temperature. In
the first place: heat as maintained in
| the body, is constant in the normal
state with daily variations of usu-
ally one degree. The average tenn
perature is 1885, F. 1t might be slight
| ly increased or decreased from this
amount. The maximum temperature
during the twenty-four hour period
is at four or five o'clock in the af-
! terncOn. The minimum temperature
occurs about three o'clock in the
morning, after the body has been at
rest for a number of hours. This
seems to result very largely from the
physiological changes which occur in
the body. The normal activity during
| the day and the increased mental and
| physical work eliminates at the max
imum temperature in the latter part
of the afternoon, while the rest which
is obtained during the night through
the relaxation of muscles results in
the minimum temperature If the
process is reversed, and a person per
forms night work and sleeps during
the day, it is found the minimum is
during the latter part of the sleeping
hours, and the maximum is during
the working hours which would be at
night. So it is not a question Of at
mOspheric conditions, or conditions
outside the body, but rather the Occur
patton of the individual that causes
that variation. In studying the ques-
, tion of heat production and heat dis
sipation we must realize the temper
ature normally is maintained at Ger
tain degree. In order for this to b.
tue, we must have the same mechan
: ism which maintains heat dissipation
: at the same rate that heat production
occurs. Heat production varies ant
when we are at rest, cur muscles ar
: relaxed and the production of hea
in the body is at minimum and We
, the temperature remains at $685.
or approximately so. If we perform
labor, we consume oxygen in the body
I. the muscles contract forcibly, "
l breathe heavily and we are using nu
tritive material and the metabolism
increased and the production of hea
is increased to that degree, but at tn
same time our temperature remains a
e 1885, F., or nearly so. In other words
4 no matter whether the heat produC
ton is low or high, it is kept pac
with by heat elimination and if muc
heat is produced, much is eliminate
|. and vice versa, and there must b
8 some mechanism whereby the dissips
J ton of heat is held in proportion t
the production. This can only be thr
I the nervous system, the one systeI
r that is in touch with all systems, bt
e cause in all systems, heat is .prC
duced.
Continued next week..