| Description Of Item | Contains 'Cerebellar disease' rough notes only, 1868; and case notes on memory of words and musical notes; nocturnal singing; aphasia; case of John Dodds, aged 11 at Millholme Asylum, with mania and nocturnal epilepsy treated with belladonna and including a record of his fits 1870-71; and Faraday's case and the case of Charles Dickens (notes taken from their own accounts). Also includes other case notes: of Andrew Alexander with facial paralysis and loss of hearing, vision and memory as reported by A C Munro, clinical clerk, 1874; of William Taylor with loss of power in his legs and arms, 1873; of William Normand with facial pain, drowsiness and failing sight, 1874; of William Waddell with thymic epilepsy c1863; of ringing in the ears, 1867; and of Miss Robson Scott, by W Blair 1874.
Also includes correspondence: letter from William H Coddington, Reigate on his own case, 1867; letter from Hugh Fraser, Inverness on his own case, 1868; letter from John Haddon, Eccles on the case of Mrs Holdsworth's son with Laycock's notes on the case, 1874; letter from Charles Litt, Workington on the case of his daughter with notes by Laycock, 1868; letter from James Little, Dublin on the case of Lord Lurgan with Laycock's notes, c1867; letter from J B MacGuire, Northumberland on the case of S F MacGuire with Laycock's notes, 1872; letter from M D Macleod, Cumberland and Westmorland Asylum on the case of a patient with memory loss, 1874; letters from John McMunn, Sligo Asylum on the prescription for Mr Wynne, 1871-1874 letters from P S Wynne, Dunoon on the case of Mr Wynne including his use of digitalis, 1871; letter from Hugo Reid, East Wemyss on his own case, 1867; and letter from Percy Stewart on his own cerebral case, 1874.
Also includes article in French on Dr Brown-Séquard in Écho de la Presse Médicale; 'Roberts on the More Usual Forms of Paralysis; and small cuttings on the sense of rotation, persistent types of animal life, progressive locomotor ataxy and tabes dorsalis and progressive general paralysis. |