| Description Of Item | Press cutting from page 607 of The Lancet, originally published 2 June 1866. Print of a letter by Dr George Johnson to the editor of the Lancet [James Wakley]. Johnson had recently published a lecture on delirium tremens and its treatment, referring to Dr Laycock’s doctrine. Laycock had judged his views misrepresented, and Johnson here responded to this accusation by affirming he did not see any serious error. He mentions that in an article in the Monthly Journal of Medical Science of 1854 (later reprinted as ‘On the Pathology of Delirium Tremens, and its Treatment without Stimulants or Opiates’, Edinburgh, 1854), Dr [Alexander] Peddie had already ‘advocated the treatment of delirium tremens without opiates and stimulants’, well before Laycock’s first publication on the subject in 1858.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |