Record

Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/46
TitleLecture file of Thomas Laycock: Impulsive - Juvenile - Feminine - Insanity
Date1861-1868
TermAsylum
Description Of ItemContains 'Impulsiveness and Impulsive Insanity'; 'Juvenile Insanity' with pasted cuttings on crimes by juveniles and further loose notes; 'Feminine Insanity; and 'Property Instincts (acquisitiveness)' with pasted cutting on the acqusitiveness of birds. Also includes letter from Thomas Barnes, Carlisle on the case of his daughter and letter from her reporting that she had cut her hair as Laycock had directed, 1864; letter from Mary Johnson, Whitehaven on the case of her daughter, 1861; letter from Jane Lawrence, Arbroath on her sister; letter from Charles Welch, London on a case at Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum, 1863; case notes on suggestive melancholia, hysterical insanity, accumulators, attitudinisers, impulsives, periodic kleptomania and juvenile dementia 1861-1868; and small cuttings on cases of juvenile crime.
Extent1 folder
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