| Description Of Item | Notes by Thomas Laycock for a lecture on temperature and medicine, including diseases characterised by heat or cold, causes of heat or cold, and the effect on fevers, circulation and muscles. Several press cuttings are pasted in. The first is titled ‘Average Temperature of the Human Body’, the next titled ‘Influence of Electricity on Muscular Fibre of Vegetable Life and on Nutrition’, the third, dated 1875 by Laycock, titled ‘Effects of Division of the Sympathetic Nerve’, and the last titled ‘Influence of Heat on the Muscles’. There are further short articles copied out by Laycock on blue sheets of paper and inserted loose into the notes. There are also additions to the main lecture inserted in the same manner, and a summary of the lecture. The paper is watermarked ‘1861’. |