| Description Of Item | From the collection of Thomas Laycock. Press cutting of the minutes of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society’s eighth meeting of their forty-sixth session, where the brain of a woman who had aphasia was exhibited, and a paper titled ‘Paracentesis Thoracis in the Treatment of Plural Effusions, Acute and Chronic’ was given. On the back of the cutting are part of the minutes of the 18 April 1866 meeting of Medical Society of the College of Physicians, Ireland, which include a description of a boy’s recovery from tetanus. |