It seems that the estimable Mr Wunderlich rounded the Celsius number up to exactly 37 from a slightly lower overall average. I'm sure he must have been aware of the shortcomings I mentioned in my first post in this thread and was thereby resistant to the common scientific failing of resorting to "spurious accuracy." The conversion to Fahrenheit was then rendered from that rounded-up Celsius figure (even then it was often stated wrongly as 98.4F, which, ironically, is close to the true Fahrenheit number deriving from his original slightly lower average Celsius value).
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