| Description Of Item | From the collection of Thomas Laycock. Printed article by Edward Lawrie, Garrison Assistant Surgeon at Fort William [India] describing an experiment conducted on healthy prisoners in Presidency Jail to determine the average healthy temperature in the rectum. He concluded that this is only affected by exposure to the sun, not by work or race, and that temperature is best taken in the rectum. The first page of an article titled ‘Famine and fever, as cause and effect, in Rajpootana [Rajputana] in 1868 & 1869’ follows the end of the first article. |