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Rheumatology 2004; 43: 800-802
Rheumatology Vol. 43 No. 6 © British Society for Rheumatology 2004; all rights reserved

Heberden Historical Series

The historical development of thermal imaging in medicine

Heberden Historical Series/Series Editor: M. I. V. Jayson

E. F. J. Ring

Thermal Physiology, Medical Imaging Research Group, School of Computing University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, UK.

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The association between disease and human body temperature is as old as medicine itself. Hippocrates defined fever in different forms, such as malignant, benign and acute. It was claimed that if wet mud was applied to the skin, and one area dried rapidly while the remainder was still moist, that an underlying tumour may be suspected.

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