Difficult choices as death nears. As the changes described in this article develop in the final days or hours of a progressive terminal illness, difficult choices may arise. There may be questions about whether to provide food and fluids, receive blood transfusions, or treat infections.
The use of mercury in thermometers dates back hundreds of years. It was widely used because it reliably expands and contracts with changes in temperatures. It is highly poisonous, however, and can enter the body through the respiratory or digestive tracts, or directly through the skin.
-At that time temperature scales were not standarized and people made up their own scales. Gabriel Fahrenheit's invention was welcomed with the church because it did not affect anything that has to do with religion. Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer and the fahrenheit scale. To measure the temperature of things. What would happen is the mercury if it was warm out it would expand and be pushed up a hole in the center of the thermometer to a certain level. His Idea impacted the 21st century because the fahrenheit scale is still