| Description Of Item | Relates to goitre (bronchocele, struma) and thyroid glands, and their relations to tuberculosis, ‘cretinism’, sexual organs’ health, cardiac health, cancer, cervical ‘vessels and nerves’. Details the characteristics, forms, causes, diagnostics, and treatments of goitre. Comments on the causes of ‘cretinism’. Includes an index and list of illustrations (including a ‘full length drawing of male and female creatin’ from Laycock’s own collection, and a ‘cretin skull’). Include a press cutting from an unknown publication, glued to a page; it is about the curing of goitre brought by ‘removal to another country’.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |