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Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/62
TitleLecture file of Thomas Laycock: Suicide and Self-Mutilation - Homicide - Homicidal Mania - Cannibalism
Date1861-1875
TermMental illness
Asylum
Description Of ItemContains 'Combative and Destructive Appetites' with pasted cuttings on attacks by animals, cannibalism, murders by lunatics and suicides, and case note on an imbecile cannibal; 'Self-mutilation and suicide' with pasted cuttings on statistics and cases of suicide; and 'Symptomatology and Etiology' with pasted cuttings. Also includes letter from W C McIntosh, Perth Asylum, with a case of self mutilation, 1869; letters to K McLeod, Calcutta [Kolkata] [India] from B Cockburn, Benares and C [_?] Parker, Mirzapur on the sect of agharpunts [?] who practice cannibalism in their belief in the equality of all things, 1873-1874; photograph of a Hindu guru with a pierced penis; case note of homicidal mania, 1861; carte de visited of severed heads; and cuttings on religious sects of Russia, suicides, criminal lunatics and murder cases 1865-1875.
Extent2 folders
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