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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2557, 17 March 1877, Page 3

THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION AND THE WOETH OF EVIDENCE." Incidentally we (" British Medical Journal ") may gather from time to time cnriously valuable evidence of the worlhlessness of subjective evidence respecting mysterious agencies. The " Btudent's Journal" lately.published some ward notes of the impressions which patients occasionally, derive from the-use of the clinical thermometer. A young' womanl who was convalescent, and whose Jem perature had long remained normal, had a slight relapse, which she attributed to having had " no glass under her arm for a week." A man suffering from acute rheumatism obstinately refused to hare hia temperature taken any more, saying: •" it took too much out of him ; it was ■ a drawing all bis strength away." A man had been in.the habit for some time of having his temperature taken daily under his tongue with a thermometer that had been doing severe duty in the axillae of other patients. One nipht, a brand-new thermometer was applied to his. mouth ;'; next day lie declared he was not so well, and said, " tbe.glass was not so strong as usual; be felt at the time the taste was different^ and it had not done him so much good." A sister in one of the women's wards' says that many of. the .patients lhink the thermometers are used to detect breaches of the rule against liiOß ECOJSOMY, TEA 2s 6d, at ? McGOWAK'Sr . '■*