| Description Of Item | Contains 'Idiocy and Imbecility'; 'On arrangement and construction of asylums and retreats', heads of lecture July 18th 1868; and 'Sitophobia (refusal of food)'. Also includes a letter from Elspeth McDonald, a patient in the Millholme House private asylum, Musselburgh; letter from Robert Savile, Hull on the case of a farmer's daughter who refuses food, 1871; 'The treatment of melancholia with refusal of food' by James E Huxley, 1855; 'On a case of microcephaly and on a case of general paralysis of the instance of unusually long duration' by James MacLaren, 1874; 'On prolonged fasting with reference to a particular class of insane persons' by John Manley, c1853; 'Illegitimacy as a cause of idiocy' by Arthur Mitchell, 1862; 'On the administration of food to fasting patients' by James Wilkes with a letter in response; case histories from various institutions: case history of James Lynch with juvenile dementia, case history of James Wallace with juvenile dementia, 1863, case notes for six named patients with melancholia, case notes for seven named patients with other forms of mental illness, c1873, case notes for three 'congenital idiots',case notes for idiocy and imbecility, c1863, case notes for patients at Millholme House, case note for Robert Scott, 1868 and a further three for Miss Moffat, Neilson and William Powers; and small cuttings on advertisement for casts of gorilla's skull, description of the people of Dokos, description of the brain of an idiot 1872 and education of idiots and imbeciles. |