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PALMAR sweating increases in young women when their environmental temperature is artificially raised1, and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that palmar sweating is related directly to environmental temperature and will vary with it in the different seasons of the year. As a preliminary test of the supposition, five women aged 18–20 years were observed for a month in summer and a month in winter, menstrual months being chosen in preference to calendar months to eliminate luteal effects2. The menstrual cycles chosen to represent summer and winter were those which began in August and in February.
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MACKINNON, P., MACKINNON, I. Seasonal Sweating. Nature 177, 799 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177799a0
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