[6]　奇怪的是，没有人知道为什么会这样：Ashcroft, Life at the Extremes, pp. 133-134; Blumberg, Body Heat, pp. 146-147.
[7] 体温仅升高1℃左右：Davis, Beautiful Cure, p. 113.
[8]　顺便提一句，有一种看法说，我们的大部分热量是通过：‘Myth: We Lose Most Heat from Our Heads', Naked Scientists podcast, 24 Oct. 2016.
[9]　创造这个词的是：Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 5, no. 15 (Feb. 1947): pp. 407-423; American National Biography,s.v. ‘Cannon, Walter Bradford?.