| Description Of Item | A lecture or article by Thomas Laycock with later additions and notes from an article by M de Luca in the Gasette Medicale de Paris, October 1863 on the weight of body parts.
In the previous catalogue other items were listed along with the lecture but it is not known whether they actually relate to it. The following letters were included:
notice on the illegality of imprisoning T G Atkinson in any asylum signed by him and witnessed by Henry Beloc and George William King, June 1874; letter from Anne Lee Hardy, East and West Houses, Morningside [Royal Edinburgh Hospital] on her royal descent, 14 July 1874; letter from William Atkinson, York enclosing a letter from 'Tom' in the Coppice Asylum, Nottingham on his wrongful commitment, 15 July 1874; and letter from J L, Laurencekirk, on the case of his sister with mental illness, 21st July 1874. Also included is a certificate of emergency to authorise the detention of a patient in an asylum for a period of three days initialled by A L but probably not genuine, 28th December 1872.
The following article were included: 'The Umrit Sagur' by T H Hendley, 1874; The London Medical Record February 19 1873 and March 5 1873 (numerous articles with no indication of for which one the journals were kept); address on the brain by Dr Holmes to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Boston, 1870; 'On the relations between body and mind and between mental and other disorders of the nervous system' by Henry Maudsley, 1870; proof of an article 'Hospitals for Inebriates', author not given; 'The stature and bulk of man in the British Isles', 1870; article on the foundation of the Liverpool Anthropological Society; letter to the Lancet with Dr Morris' criticism of Laycock's writing on spinal neuralgiae; 'On the Sensational, Emotional, Intellectual and Instinctive Capacities of the lower animals compared with those of man' by Richard Fowler; |