| Description Of Item | Contains 'The Faculties - Physiology and Pathology'; 'Memory and recollection - Physiology and Pathology'; 'Overwork of Mind' with pasted cutting on a system of sending farm boys to work on alternate days and bodily training; 'Special Pathology and Disorders and Defects of Memory'; 'Strength of Memory and Morbid Development' with pasted cuttings on the substance of the brain, feats of memory and chronic mania; case notes of William James Blacklock titled 'An Artist - General Paralysis - Picturesque ideation of the representative faculty with erotic or amatory feelings' which includes an illustration of a landscape with a tower and bridge (as used in 'Art in Madness' p253), titled 'General Paralysis of an artist - development of the grotesque in form' with a caricature (as used in 'Art in Madness' p253) and titled 'General Paralysis - An artist - handwriting and spelling showing retrocession to earlier style in youth' with an illustration of a panoramic landscape and a sketch of Dr Browne's house at Crichton (as used in 'Art in Madness' p251-2), 1855; a case note comparing a female patient's handwriting between 1863 and 1873; and other case notes including that of Sir Walter Scott.
Also includes (in folder 2:2) letter from A Manson, Banff concerning the case of W J Harvey with renal calculus, 1865; proofs of a paper by Dr Laycock on dreams; 'Overwork' editorial Indian Medical Gazette, 1875; 'Mr Kelso on the Influence of Memory in Animals'; and small cuttings on the science of language, Isaac Newton's eccentricities, effects of imagination and the natives of Night Island, Queensland.
Blacklock illustrations have been mounted on a modern mount (late 2019). |