Abstract
(1) A brief review of the literature is presented, including the history of factors affecting body temperature. (2) The heat regulatory capacity of children and schizophrenics is discussed. (3)Some surface temperature readings of twenty patients are presented. The most outstanding effects of emotional influence on surface temperature occurred in a schizophrenic, and in two psychoneurotics, one of which showed the major hysterical reaction. Weeping caused a noticeable change in the surface temperature of one patient. The temperature of the two sides in hemiplegics was remarkably similar. The electrothermograph of one patient, preoccupied by unpleasant aspects of her life-history, shows a sharp drop in the temperature of the right cheek. (4)Emotional reactions appear to have an inconstant effect on surface temperature, as Pembrey had concluded. It seems fairly well established that emotions or affects may conspire to produce surface temperature deviations, variable in duration, even to the extent of fever, ...
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