| Description Of Item | Pages 127 to 128 from the Indian Medical Gazette, originally published 1 May 1873. The article is called ‘Goitre and Cretinism in the Bárí Dooab, Gúrdaspúr’. It comments on the report conducted by Dr J Ferguson. It extensively quotes his observations on the subject, and his remarks about the link between bronchocele (also called goitre) and terrain geology (precisely lime in soil), and between goitre and ‘cretinism’.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |