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The first man to introduce precise measurements into the study of physiological process was the 17th Century Italian doctor Santorio Santorio, who studied the change in his weight before and after eating.
He was in close contact with Galileo and Fabrizzi, his colleagues at the University of Padua
(Taylor 1963)

Weighing himself before, during and after eating, Santorio Santorio found that the weight of his excreta was less than the weight of his food. He correctly inferred that he must be giving off matter in gaseous form, or as he put it “insensible perspiration”.

These were the first scientific studies into basal metabolism. In 1863 these studies were started again.

Santorio is also famous as the first man to introduce instruments for precise measurement into medicine. He invented a devise for taking the pulse rate by comparing it with a pendulum, and conceived the medical thermometer.
 

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