| Description Of Item | A press cutting of an article titled Melancholia And Delusions Cured By Removing A Tumour, published in the Dublin Medical Press. It is an excerpt from an article written by Sir William Charles Hood titled Melancholia and Delusions, Depending Upon Physical Disease: Removal Of The Tumour By The
Écraseur, published in The Medical Times and Gazette on 15 November 1856. The article is about an unmarried domestic servant called AS who believed she had no bowels. This article reasons that this belief came from constipation and a labial hernia. Medical treatment helped to improve her mental condition. The cutting has continuing text pasted onto the bottom.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |