The Thermometer in Obstetrics and Gynæcology

This pamphlet consists of two lectures delivered at the Midwives' Institute. They must have been uncommonly dreary for the listeners, for they contain little else than the enumeration of various readings of the thermometer after childbirth and after the graver gynsecological operations. The thermometer is of course an indispensable aid in diagnosis, but it is easily possible to overrate its value. Too often a high temperature is looked upon as a disease which