[ Goodsir colours, ducks his head a little. Remembers Dr. McDonald and thinks: Fraser has much the same decency and kindness. ]
It was ... there was a line of discolouration in the gums, you see, much like contamination I'd seen with bismuth. Terror's surgeon, Dr. McDonald—he mentioned a case regarding cider presses. I tested my hypothesis on ... well, on the monkey that Sir John had brought on Erebus as a pet. I'm afraid the poor creature proved the case. But even when we abandoned the ships, I was still attempting to draft a paper that I would have submitted to the Lancet, when we returned.
cw: animal experimentation/death
[ Goodsir colours, ducks his head a little. Remembers Dr. McDonald and thinks: Fraser has much the same decency and kindness. ]
It was ... there was a line of discolouration in the gums, you see, much like contamination I'd seen with bismuth. Terror's surgeon, Dr. McDonald—he mentioned a case regarding cider presses. I tested my hypothesis on ... well, on the monkey that Sir John had brought on Erebus as a pet. I'm afraid the poor creature proved the case. But even when we abandoned the ships, I was still attempting to draft a paper that I would have submitted to the Lancet, when we returned.