| Description Of Item | Notes from the collection of Thomas Laycock titled ‘Conservative or [biotic] orexia or appetites’. The first section under this heading discusses the animal instinct for self-preservation and the avoidance of fear and harm. The second section contains a blue paper insert, with what appears to be a summary of the more detailed notes of the previous section, perhaps for use as lecture notes, with additional sub-heading ‘Love of Life’.
Thereafter several other sections follow, one titled ‘Pain and Painful Feelings’ and detailing the effects thereof; one titled ‘[Fundamental] Power of Pain’; one that appears to be titled ‘[Dysphoria]’; and one in which the heading and contents appear illegible. The next section is titled ‘Life [Instinct]’ and discusses the different types of instinct that allow one to protect oneself and defend against attacks. The final section discusses ‘Instinctive Feelings’ such as pain and terror and contains a newspaper cutting containing two short articles. The first, titled ‘Accident from the Thunderstorm’, details a horse in Southwick that was put down following an injury sustained when it was frightened by a flash of lighting. The second article details the deaths of two horses in Castleton, also frightened by a storm, who fell over a high precipice after escaping their field. The source of this cutting could not be found. There are several further pages of handwritten notes following this cutting which appear to be related to the earlier topics, but much of the handwriting is illegible so precise details are not known. |