July 20 1836 — Birth of Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt,
an English physician who invented the short clinical thermometer
Until Allbutt's invention in 1866,
a patient had to hold a foot-long thermometer for 20 minutes!
Albutt's 6" portable thermometer could take a temperature in just 5 minutes.
In 1916, at the age of 80, he was elected president of the British Medical Association.
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haha. thank goodness 'cause one hour when your sick can seem like an eternity.
CC,
and there's no way a sick, irritable child would hold still long enough to take the temp with the foot long thermometer!
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