| Description Of Item | Contains 'Epilepsies and Epileptic Seizures'; and 'Vertigo'. Also includes case notes for patients with epilepsy, 1857-1868; letter from John McPherson, Dundonald quoting Miller on nitro-glycerine and suggesting its use as a reflex agent to stimulate the cranial portion of the spinal cord; letters from James Rorie, Dundee Royal Asylum with details of a post mortem on a patient with general paralysis of the insane and experiments in epilepsy conducted on a bird 1860; letters from James Saidler, Millholme House Asylum, on Laycock's suggestions of using snuff and ammonia as a treatment for epilepsy and opium and spirit of turpentine in a case of melancholy with suicidal tendencies, one letter with a table of patients cases 1860-1861; blank form for recording epileptic fits; The Treatment of Epilepsy Principles and Practice' by John Chapman, 1867; 'A Series of Cases Illustrative of Cerebral Pathology - Cases of Intra-Cranial Tumour' by Dr Hughlings-Jackson, 1873; 'Simple Method of Treating certain kinds of Epilepsy, Dementia and other Chronic Head-Affections' by Thomas Laycock'; 'Treatment of Epilepsy by Artemesia Vulgaris and Cardamine Pratensis' by Dr O'Rourke; 'Three Cases of Epilepsy' by Dr Russell, 1862; 'A Case of Catalepsy' by Charles A Voorhies, 1863; 'Case of Epileptic Attacks and other previous symptoms associated with syphilis' by Dr Brown-Sequard; 'Individual Remedies in Epilepsy' by Dr Anstie, 1862; 'Bromide of Potassium in Albuminuric Convulsion', 1874; advertisement in French for the regime to be followed when using Galium Album in epilepsy; and other small cuttings. |