biography
| name: |
Wunderlich, Carl August
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pronunciation:
[vunderlikh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1815–77)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Sulz-on-Neckar, SW Germany. Professor of medicine at Leipzig, he was the first to introduce temperature charts into hospitals, contending that fever is a symptom and not a disease. His clinical thermometer was a foot long, and took 20 minutes to register the temperature. |
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