...(see Edwards On the Influence of Physica* Agents on Lift, London, 1 832) have proved that ' the powei of producing heat in warm-blooded animals is at its...at birth, and increases successively to adult age.' It U clear therefore, that waierof a higher temperature than what feels cool to the hand of the nurse...

...considered a superfluity. Dr. Combe alludes to the instructive experiments of Dr. Milne Edwards, shewing, that "the power of producing heat in warm-blooded...at birth, and increases successively to adult age," and that young animals, so far from being warmer and more capable of resisting cold than older, are...

...greatest protection against it by clothing and external warmth. Dr. Edwards has shown experimentally that the power of producing heat in warm-blooded animals is at its minimum at birth, and increases progressively to adult age ; and instead of young animals being warmer than adults, they are generally...

...to a wrong source, or the infant sinks under the action of an unknown cause. The power of generating heat in warmblooded animals is at its minimum at birth, and increases successively to adult age ; young animals, instead of being warmer than adults, are generally a degree or two colder, and part...

...others where they were more closely congregated round the mayor. Now, it is a well-ascertained fact, that the power of producing heat, in warm-blooded animals, is at its minimum at birth, and increases gradually to adult age. Infants, therefore, at this early period, have very little capability of resisting...

...for this reason it needs the protection of more clothing. The experiments of Dr. Milne Edwards show that the power of producing heat in warm-blooded animals,...at birth, and increases successively to adult age ; and that young children part with their heat more readily than adults, and, instead of being warmer,...

...obscnrntiou. 2ti2 ANATOMY, PHVSlOLCWr, AND HYGIENE. The experiments of Dr. Milne Edwards show that the powci of producing heat in warm-blooded animals, is at its...at birth, and increases successively to adult age ; and that young children part with their heat more readily than adults, and, instead of being warmer,...

...heat is generated in its system than in that of an adult. The experiments of Dr. Milne Edwards show that the power of producing heat in warm-blooded animals,...at birth, and increases successively to adult age ; and that young children part with their heat more readily than adults, and, instead of being warmer,...

...in its system than in that of an adult. The experiments of Dr. Milne Edwards show that the power o!' producing heat in warm-blooded animals, is at its...at birth, and increases successively to adult age ; and that young children part with their heat more readily than adults, and, instead of being warmer,...

...consequence. A distinguished physiologist sums up the results of his researches on this point, in the conclusion, " that the power of producing heat in...at its minimum at birth, and increases successively until adult age."* Admitting this, how much is to be deprecated the too frequent practice of clothing...