| Description Of Item | Contains 'Dropsies - Albuminuria' with additional loose notes on albuminuria; 'The Haemorrhagic Diathesis - Haemophilia'; and 'Purpura Simplex and Purpura Haemorrhagia'. Also includes pasted cuttings from the Medical Circular on Laycock's comments on immunity from dropsical disorders in the insane, discussion between Dr Gull and Laycock on hemiplegic anasarca and the use of ice bags in nervous disorders; two articles from the Asylum Journal 'Cutaneous Discolorations resembling bruises occurring to the Insane' by J C Bucknill, 1854 and letters on the same, 1855; part of 'Clinical Inquiries into the influence of the nervous system on the production and prevention of dropsies' by Laycock, 1866; case note of William Young with swelling of the abdomen and lower limbs, 1872; case note of C M Makgill Crichton; list of cases giving the patient's name, age, urine, albumen, bladder, nervous system, heart, lungs and oedema, c1873; and cuttings on cases of oedema, purpura, and intermittent purpura simplex and the haemostatic effects of claret. |