| Description Of Item | From the collection of Thomas Laycock. Article titled ‘Cases of Loss of Speech (Aphasia) with Hemiplegia’ contains four case studies at Mercer’s Hospital. There are also articles containing case studies at Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, and Richmond, Whitworth and Hardwicke Hospitals. Article titled ‘Two Cases of Tumour of the Brain’ is a continuation from DEP/LAT/1/56/9 and describes a case study of twenty-year-old Bothsie V who suffered vision loss as a result of a brain tumour, whose condition differed from the patient in the first case study due to the presence of echinococcus (tapeworms). The review of ‘On the Function of Articulate Speech, and on its Connexion with the Mind and the Bodily Organs’ by WT [William Tennant] Gairdner contains suggestions for further reading. There is also an article titled ‘Abstracts of the Scientific Societies’ and part of an article on the proceedings of the Obstetrical Society of London. |