[Thermoregulatory response to local convection and radiation cooling]

When equal amounts of cooling were applied to the skin of rabbits the heat production and heat loss elicited by means of convection had shorter latencies and were by 40 to 50 per cent more pronounced that those elicited by radiation. The correlation of the thermoregulatory reactions with the skin temperature was more stable in experiments with convective cooling. Cooling of the skin by 7 to 10 degrees C was optimal for the distinctions between the results.