| Description Of Item | Notes from Thomas Laycock about types of lypethymia including hypochondria, hypochondriacal melancholia, sexual hypochondriacal melancholia and acute mystic melancholia. Causes and treatment of hypochondria and sexual hypochondriacal melancholia are discussed. The connection between alcohol consumption and hypochondria is made, with references to delirium tremens. The notes contain a description of an unnamed forty-five-year-old male patient who experienced head pain and frequent confusion. A cutting from The Naming and Classification of Diseases of the Nervous System by Thomas Laycock has been pasted in.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |