In 1868 the German physician Carl Wunderlich (1815–1877) published the results of thermometric measurements on more than 25,000 patients.
He had recorded the temperatures of patients at Leipzig University Hospital as numbers and curves and established the range of 36.3 to 37.5 °C as normal human body temperature.
Wunderlich also observed that specific diseases had their own characteristic fever curves. His work gave medical practitioners a new way to diagnose disease, and hospital patients' temperatures began to be recorded at regular intervals and displayed as temperature curves on a chart by their bed.
Wunderlich Law
Wunderlich, a German physician, proposed certain rules about temperature in typhoid fever, stating that if the temperature reaches 40°C on the first day, it's not typhoid fever, and if it doesn't reach 39.5°C on the fourth day, it's not typhoid fever either
Wunderlich Syndrome
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