| Description Of Item | Leaflets of written notes on the symptoms, definition and treatment of Euthymia, Euphoria, Lybethymia and Melancholy. A loose page of dark blue paper is inserted inside the first leaflet, titled ‘Traditional Forms of Physical Insanity.’ A printed definition for ‘Athymia’ is glued to the top of one leaflet, stating: ‘Abolition of power and feeling, and of the feelings. 1. Symptomatic (of other Thymiae). 2. Acute apathetic dementia (‘Phrenoplexy’). 3. Apathetic fatuity.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |