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Subject: Re: RT at the doctor's in the early 1970s

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Phillip

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Date Posted: Saturday, October 28, 2023, 04:31: am
In reply to: Lisbeth 's message, "RT at the doctor's in the early 1970s" on Monday, October 16, 2023, 12:54: pm

The purpose of taking a youngsters temperature rectally with a glass rectal thermometer has been limited to youngsters with a combination of either intellectually or emotionally maturity to not understand instructions keeping a glass oral thermometer intact while placed in the mouth. When considering grade school age youngsters (that is, youngsters five to ten years old), where a five year old girl may be developed enough to have a temperature taken in the mouth with a glass oral thermometer without a mishap while a boy at that age would not reach that level of maturity and therefore have his temperature taken in his rear end with a glass rectal thermometer. There are trends over the last couple of decades or so in which a lack of maturity may persist requiring a youngster beyond the age of five years old and up to ten years old to continue to have his temperature taken rectally with a glass rectal thermometer.

Whatever the age of the youngster, taking a temperature rectally with a glass rectal thermometer is an exquisite means of capturing a temperature reading from him in that the opening forms a nice, tight seal around the glass rectal thermometer while lining of his rectal interior is in intimate contact with the glass structure from the point of entry down to metal tip. The youngster also benefits from having his temperature taken in his rear end with a glass rectal thermometer in that he is spared the fatigue of having to keep his mouth partially open and his lips pressed together for what might seem to be an eternity while at the same time preventing him from feeling the silvery tip of the glass oral thermometer poking into the soft area under his tongue. With his mouth unoccupied he is free to speak as he pleases which tends to center around not having a temperature taken in the mouth with a "glass thermometer" like his peers who have a temperature taken in the mouth with a "glass thermometer".

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