Description Of Item | Contains 'Combative and Destructive Appetites' with pasted cuttings on attacks by animals, cannibalism, murders by lunatics and suicides, and case note on an imbecile cannibal; 'Self-mutilation and suicide' with pasted cuttings on statistics and cases of suicide; and 'Symptomatology and Etiology' with pasted cuttings. Also includes letter from W C McIntosh, Perth Asylum, with a case of self mutilation, 1869; letters to K McLeod, Calcutta [Kolkata] [India] from B Cockburn, Benares and C [_?] Parker, Mirzapur on the sect of agharpunts [?] who practice cannibalism in their belief in the equality of all things, 1873-1874; photograph of a Hindu guru with a pierced penis; case note of homicidal mania, 1861; carte de visited of severed heads; and cuttings on religious sects of Russia, suicides, criminal lunatics and murder cases 1865-1875. |