| Description Of Item | Pages 419 to 421 from the Lancet, originally published 21 and 28 April 1866. Article titled ‘A Lecture on Delirium Tremens, its Symptoms, Pathology, and Treatment,’ by George Johnson, FRCP [Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians] (from King’s College Hospital). Presents several cases, a history of theories about the disease, and several treatments (with or without opium or stimulants), and concludes with Johnson’s own prescriptions. Mentions several times Thomas Laycock and his article ‘Clinical Illustrations of the Pathology and Treatment of Delirium Tremens’.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |