Carl Wunderlich: Clinical Thermometer
Wunderlich is famous for proving that:
- Body temperature varies with disease
- Fever patterns help diagnose illness
He collected >1 million temperature readings from ~25,000 patients.
His book:
- Das
Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten (1868)
→ “The Course of Temperature in Diseases”
He established:
- Normal body temperature ≈ 37 °C (98.6 °F)
This became a standard in medicine worldwide
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