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XII.—The Effect of changing the Daily Routine on the Diurnal Rhythm in Body Temperature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Sutherland Simpson
Affiliation:
Physiological Laboratory, Medical College, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.

Extract

To determine whether the diurnal variation in body temperature is due to the combined effects of the various influences which are known to act upon it, such as muscular exercise, the ingestion of food, sleep, etc., or is present independently of these, the daily routine of the individual who is the subject of the experiment may be reversed artificially by causing him to work during the night and rest and sleep during the day, or it may be modified in another way, viz. by rapidly changing his longitude in a journey from west to east, or vice versa. If the temperature of the body is dependent on the influences mentioned, then a total reversal of the daily routine, or any modification of it, should produce a corresponding change in the diurnal temperature curve.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1912

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