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The effect of 9 environmental temperatures between 10° and 40° on survival time and on body temperature of rats in traumatic shock was studied. The results indicate: 1. that the optimum temperature is 20°. Survival time at this temperature is significantly better than at 17.5° or 25°; lower or higher temperatures are increasingly harmful. 2. Animals in shock appear to be poikilothermic, their body temperatures tending to approach the environmental temperature.
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