THE QUANTITATIVE MECHANISM AND THE SENSORY RECEPTOR ORGAN OF HUMAN TEMPERATURE CONTROL IN WARM ENVIRONMENT
Authors: T. H. Benzinger
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1961)

Article1 April 1961THE QUANTITATIVE MECHANISM AND THE SENSORY RECEPTOR ORGAN OF HUMAN TEMPERATURE CONTROL IN WARM ENVIRONMENTT. H. BENZINGER, M.D., SCD.T. H. BENZINGER, M.D., SCD.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-54-4-685 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe measurement of human body temperature is perhaps the only instance where a quantitative method of clinical observation is routinely applied in every family, by every mother. Yet we are far from understanding its meaning. The measurement is performed in disease, not during health. In health, human body temperature is homeostatically regulated by physiologic mechanisms, which have been the goal of many attempts at discovery. How does it happen, that in summer or in winter, at peaceful rest or with the metabolic furnace at full blast during strenuous exercise, our temperature is always approximately 37° C?It has long been...Bibliography1. Rubner M: Anpassungfaehigkeit des menschen an hohe und niedrige lufttemperaturen. Arch. Hyg. Bakt. 38: 120, 1900. Google Scholar2. AronsohnSachs EJ: Die beziehungen des gehirns zur koerperwaerme und zum fieber. Pflueger. Arch. Ges. Physiol. 37: 232, 1885. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. Kahn RH: Ueber die erwaermung des karotisblutes. Arch. Anat. Physiol. 81: Supp. 134, 1904. Google Scholar4. Barbour HG: Die wirkung unmittelbarer erwaermung und abkuehlung der waermezentra auf die koerpertemperatur. Arch. Exp. Path. Pharm. 70: 1, 1912. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. RansonMagoun SWHW: The hypothalamus. Ergebn. Physiol. 41: 56, 1939. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. Von Euler C: Slow temperature potentials in the hypothalamus. J. Cell. Comp. Physiol. 36: 333, 1950. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar7. Benzinger TH: On physical heat regulation and the sense of temperature in man. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 45: 645, 1959. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar8. HemingwayRasmussenWickoffRasmussen ATHAT: Local hypothalamic heating. J. Neurophysiol. 3: 329, 1940. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. FreemanDavis WJDD: Effects on cats of hypothalamic cooling. Amer. J. Physiol. 197: 145, 1959. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Bethesda, Maryland*Received for publication May 9, 1960.From the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.Presented at the Forty-first Annual Meeting of The American College of Physicians, San Francisco, Calif., April 4-8, 1960.Requests for reprints should be addressed to T. H. Benzinger, M.D., SC.D., Head, Bio-Energetics Division, Naval Medical Research Institute, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda 14, Maryland. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byTemperature measurement in critically ill orally intubated adults: A comparison of pulmonary artery core, tympanic, and oral methodsInfluence of Varying Rumen Temperature on Central Cooling or Warming and on Regulation of Voluntary Feed Intake in Dairy CattleTHE THERMOSENSITIVITY OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS AND THERMOREGULATION IN MAMMALS 1 April 1961Volume 54, Issue 4Page: 685-699KeywordsGratitudeResearch laboratoriesRetinaStrenuous exerciseTemperatureVasodilation ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 April 1961 PDF downloadLoading ...