| Description Of Item | The first cutting is about [Eugène] Boeckel’s presentation to the Medical Society of Strasbourg about the regeneration of the median nerve. It was published in the British Medical Journal on 25 January 1868.
The second cutting is about the beneficial use of compression against the temporal arteries to relieve fever-induced headaches. This discovery was made by [Jean Casimir Félix] Guyon and originally reported in the Philadelphia Medical Reporter, then printed here in 1864.
The third cutting is a review of [Eugène Hippolyte] Triquet’s Treatise on Diseases of the Ear, published in 1863. This work suggested that buzzing in the ear could be the caused by a build-up of earwax. The procedure for flushing this out is described. This article is from The Medical Circular.
The fourth cutting Is a report about a patient who had multiple neuromata. Post-mortem examinations revealed more tumours than noticed while the patient was living. The article was written by Septimus William Sibley and published in The Medical Circular on 14 February 1866.
The fifth cutting is a reprint from the American Journal of Medical Sciences on Nelson Nivison’s theory about the combined use of opium and quina (quinine). Nelson Nivison believed that, when used together, opium could lessen the negative side effects of quinine and the same vice versa. The portion of the article that refers to the benefit this has for treating neuralgia has been marked out with ink by Thomas Laycock. This article was published in The Medical Circular on 23 July 1862.
The sixth cutting is a summary of a lecture given by [Louis Alfred] Becquerel in 1859 to the Academy of Medicine which was originally reported on in the Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale de Médecine. The lecture was about how electrical currents can be used to treat neuralgia. This article was published in the London Medical Journal in July 1860.
The seventh cutting is a report that the venom from a bee or wasp sting can be used to treat several different illnesses. [Agénor de] Gasparin is used as an example of this as he had supposedly cured himself of muscular rheumatism and bronchitis with a wasp sting. The article is a summarised segment of a longer letter sent to The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science from an anonymous writer in Paris on 10 January 1865.
The eighth cutting is from the Dublin Medical Press and is about introducing albumen (egg white) to chloroform to produce a gelatinised chloroform. It is mentioned that gelatinised ether can also be made using the same method.
The ninth cutting is about a case of hereditary amaurosis. Four brothers, whose uncle had amaurosis in both eyes, also had amaurosis. Their sisters weren’t impacted by it at all. This trend, along with the ages at which the brothers presented with amaurosis, is noted. This case was presented at a meeting of the Harveian Society of London on 6 March 1862 by [William Sedgwick] Saunders.
The tenth cutting summarises Thomas Nunneley’s presentation of his paper ‘On the Structure of the Choroid Coat of the Eye, and more particularly on the character and arrangement of the pigmentary matter’. The presentation was given to the Royal Society in 1858.
The eleventh cutting is a summary of John Dingle’s paper ‘On a New Law of Binocular Vision’, which was published in 1859. This paper was read to the British Association for the Advancement of Science by John Dingle, and [John] Stevelley and [Samuel] Earnshaw made responses.
The twelfth cutting is from the Medical Circular. It reports on Claude Bernard’s findings on narceia (narceine), [Albert-Emile] Debout [d'Estrées]’s method of preparing narceine syrup, and Jules Béhier’s use of narceine to treat tuberculosis and diarrhoea. The article was published on 26 December 1864.
The thirteenth cutting is about a discovery made by a doctor called Brandini from Florence that citric acid relieved pain associated with cancer. He tested this on a 71-year-old male patient with tongue cancer and a 73-year-old female patient with breast cancer. This article was originally printed in Galignani’s Messenger but is printed here in The Medical Circular on 6 September 1865.
The fourteenth cutting is a satirical article about the dangers of chloroform by Charles Kidd. It was originally published in The Lancet and is printed here in The Medical Circular on 10 August 1864.
From the collection of Thomas Lacock.
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