| Description Of Item | Letter from James Rorie, Dundee Royal Asylum, to Thomas Laycock. Letter details the institutionalisation, treatment, and brain autopsy of James Beattie. Beattie was believed to suffer from [delirium] tremens from intemperance. Two inclusions of pencil sketches. Figure 1 - the interior carotid showing atheromatous deposits. Figure 2 – Portion of the basilar artery showing atheromatous deposits. Figure 3 – Termination of artery and portion of capillary system showing precise location of irregular thickening of walls, magnified 420 times. |