*The problem was exacerbated by a conversion of units. Wunderlich’s original measurements were made in centigrade, and his results concluded that the typical body temperature was a range around 37°C—implicitly, given that degree of precision, a range of up to a degree centigrade, somewhere above 36.5°C and below 37.5°C. But when Wunderlich’s articles in German were translated into English, reaching a larger audience, the temperature was converted from centigrade to Fahrenheit and became 98.6°F—inviting physicians to assume that the temperature had been measured to one tenth of a degree Fahrenheit rather than one degree centigrade. The implied precision was almost twenty times greater—but all that had actually changed was a conversion between two temperature scales.