| Description Of Item | Press cutting of page 69 from the Medical Times and Gazette, published 12 January 1863. Extract from a review on ‘Lectures on Surgery, delivered in St. Bartholomeo's Hospital’, by William Lawrence, FRS [Fellow of the Royal Society] (sergeant-surgeon to the Queen, and surgeon to the Royal Hospitals of St. Bartholomew and Bethlem), London, 1863. Lawrence advocated the use of stimuli and opiates in the treatment of delirium tremens. He also commented favourably on the use of tincture of digitalis, pioneered by ‘the late Mr [GM] Jones’, who was a ‘talented and accomplished man–Surgeon, Physician, and Accoucheur’ operating in the Hospital of Jersey.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock, with manuscript notes in his hand (‘Lawrence Lect[ure] on Surgery 1863’). |