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... body , and special sensi- bilities , in which the sense of heat is dulled , and even considerable elevations of temperature are not perceived . It is easy to see how impossible it must be to form a correct judgment of the actual state ...
... body , and special sensi- bilities , in which the sense of heat is dulled , and even considerable elevations of temperature are not perceived . It is easy to see how impossible it must be to form a correct judgment of the actual state ...
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... but the first impression of heat is mainly one of sensation . The feeling and the fact are not even constantly related . A person may feel hot when not only the surrounding temperature but that of his B body is low ; or , he may feel cold.
... but the first impression of heat is mainly one of sensation . The feeling and the fact are not even constantly related . A person may feel hot when not only the surrounding temperature but that of his B body is low ; or , he may feel cold.
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... body , and special sensi- bilities , in which the sense of heat is dulled , and even considerable elevations of temperature are not perceived . It is easy to see how impossible it must be to form a correct judgment of the actual state ...
... body , and special sensi- bilities , in which the sense of heat is dulled , and even considerable elevations of temperature are not perceived . It is easy to see how impossible it must be to form a correct judgment of the actual state ...
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... body also warms it . The heating process is not , as was once supposed , worked out by any special organ . Neither the lungs nor the liver form the focus of combustion ; the work is done in detail all over the body , and not in a ...
... body also warms it . The heating process is not , as was once supposed , worked out by any special organ . Neither the lungs nor the liver form the focus of combustion ; the work is done in detail all over the body , and not in a ...
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... body is lowered , as in starvation . Throughout the world , whether man be placed in tropical heat or arctic cold , the temperature of his body must , to maintain health , be preserved at the same point - about 984 to 6 degrees of Fah ...
... body is lowered , as in starvation . Throughout the world , whether man be placed in tropical heat or arctic cold , the temperature of his body must , to maintain health , be preserved at the same point - about 984 to 6 degrees of Fah ...
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