| Description Of Item | From the collection of Thomas Laycock. Letter from George Mackay, Madras Army Medical Officer, to the Medical Times and Gazette in response to a letter by [George Stewart] Beatson on the use of bloodletting to treat ‘coup de soleil’ (referring to sunstroke). Mackay corrected Beatson’s account of the treatment of one of Mackay’s patients and argued that bloodletting can be suitable as a treatment. Paragraph beginning ‘The idea that bloodletting is’ is highlighted. On back is the end of a letter describing an unknown disease. |