Woodcut illustration of the clinical thermometer designed by Sanctorios Sanctorios (1561-1636). Also known as Santorio Santorio,he was a Venetian physiologist and inventor of the clinical thermometer. A successful physician and a professor of medicine,Sanctorios introduced measurement and quantification to physiology. In 1612 Sanctorios adapted Galileo's water thermometer to construct a clinical thermometer. He invented a pendulum device,the pulsilogium,to measure pulse rates. He studied metabolism,using a large balance to measure changes in weight and thus proving that most weight was lost due to 'insensible perspiration'. He published his results in 1614 in De statica medicina | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Terry, Sheila |
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