| Description Of Item | Review of ‘Guy’s Hospital Reports. Third Series. Vol. VII. Page 392. London : 1861’ from the Medical Times and Gazette. Guy’s Hospital Reports was a medical journal of clinical practice published by Guy’s Hospital in London. Beginning of article is glued to the rest, and it continues in full on both sides of the page. The review praises past and present volumes of Guy’s Hospital Reports and details a debate between Dr Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard and Dr William Gull about causes of paralysis following infection of the urethra, bladder, kidneys, or prostate. Dr Brown-Séquard claims ‘a reflex operation’ as the cause, while Dr Gull claims it to be ‘myelitis’. Author unknown.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |