Measuring your Temperature

Thomas Clifford Allbutt

gHH

"A good, clever and graceful man...under the horrible smoke of Leeds." George Eliot, Novelist

gHH

In 1866, Allbutt invented the Clinical Thermometer. A portable 6 inch device that was able to record a patient's temperature in 5 minutes, a welcome alternative to the standard foot-long model that required 20 minutes. It soon became an indispensable diagnostic aid, on a par with the doctor's stethoscope.

gHH

"We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as a phase of certain periods of bodily development." - Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt