| Description Of Item | A letter from James Barbour to Thomas Laycock. The letter was written in Johnstonebridge, Lockerbie. It is a request for advice about a 68-year-old patient James Barbour was struggling to treat. He understood her pain and restlessness to be related to the nervous system but could not make a precise diagnosis. He was also concerned that the treatments he had previously tried (including belladonna, spermaceti ointment, chloroform ointment, tobacco infusion, and bromide) were harming her. |