| Description Of Item | Contains statistics on the number of insane with pasted cuttings, 1860; 'The Antagonism of Law and Medicine in Insanity and its Consequences' by Thomas Laycock, 1862 with cuttings; pasted cuttings of Dr Laycock's introductory address on 'Medical Psychology and Mental Diseases', 1864; loose notes on social morals, arsenical mercury, puberty, alcoholism, seminal fluid and criminal lunacy; case note on Charles Forbes with questions relating to the law and insanity; letter from Thomas Scott, Musselburgh answering Laycock's enquiry about legal cases against him by lunatics, 1862; illegible letter from Clifton Hill House signed by Symonds; letter from J B H Baker, Gloucester enclosing his reply to Dr Grey on crime and madness, 1869; a bill to amend the law of lunacy and to provide for the management of habitual drunkards, 1870; page from the Edinburgh Evening Courant with 'Dr Laycock on Law and Medicine in Insanity', 1862 with two shorter reports; ' Report of the Trial of Alexander Murray for Murder in the which defence of Insanity was Sustained' by Hugh Cowan, 1859; 'On insanity occurring among the criminals in the prison at Halle and its connection with crime' by Dr Delbrueck from the Asylum Journal, 1855; and a folder of newspaper cuttings and articles on insanity and the law, relevant criminal cases, reformation of punishment |