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-> The ° F "normal" benchmark for body temperature comes to us from Dr.
-> Carl Wunderlich, a 19th-century German physician who collected and analyzed
-> over a million armpit temperatures for 25,000 patients.

-> /press_releases/

-> Maybe Dr. Wunderlich worked in Celsius or maybe he worked in Fahrenheit or
-> maybe his thermometer had a resolution of only 1 degree C or 1 degree F.

-> I've never seen a thermometer in the . marked with as the "normal"
-> temperature. All the ones I have seen (the glass ones) show it as F.

-> "Normal" can be a range of temperatures, it can vary a degree or two either
-> way. My son's normal body temperature was always F. Upon waking most
-> people are at their lowest temperature and with activity the human body
-> temperature will increase a bit. If the increase is more than a couple
-> degrees then that could be a medical indication of ssomething wrong.

-> Mark

In Germany nowadays, they use Celsius. What they used back then, I
don't know.

My own "normal" temperature is about C ( F). But I was born in
"cold blooded" Britain.

I believe that Fahrenheit himself intended human body temperature to be
one of the "fixed points" on his scale. He wanted it to be 100 F. I
don't know how he got it a bit wrong.

dow