"Clinical thermometer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... case had been disposed of, and the students dismissed, I went straight into the laboratory to get a few surgical instruments I had chanced to leave there. For a minute or two, I mislaid my clinical thermometer, and began hunting for it behind a wooden partition in the corner of the room by the place for washing test-tubes. As I stooped down, turning over the various objects about the tap in my search, Sebastian's voice came to me. He had paused outside ...
— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen
... maid hanging over the baby's bed with white faces and trembling lips, hand in hand, like sisters. He examined the child silently, swiftly, looking with a face of inscrutable blankness at the clinical thermometer with which he had taken her temperature. "Just turn her so she'll lie comfortably," he told 'Stashie, "and then you stay with her a moment. I want a talk ...
— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield
... mirror and opened my mouth to look at my tongue. There it was. I took some of it out. It looked quite healthy, so I put it back again. Then I gazed long and earnestly down my throat. It was quite hollow as usual. Next I got the clinical thermometer and sucked it for quite a long time. When I removed it I saw my temperature was about 86. Then I found I was reading it upside down and that I was only normal. I felt disappointed. After that I tried my pulse. It took me some time to locate it, but it hadn't run down; it was ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914 • Various
... glancing at the small clinical thermometer he carried, "we'll just have time to take a look at the Strained Relations, and then I must get back and ...
— The Garden of the Plynck • Karle Wilson Baker |
