| Description Of Item | Contains 'Illusions - Hallucinations - Delusion - Cognitive Phrenesis' with an extract from a textbook on morbid imaginations and morbid institutions; 'Imagination and Hallucinations'; 'Sleep - Dreaming and Sleeplessness'; a bibliography for hallucination; and loose notes on illusions, travelling priests, a Chaldean astrologer in Greece and an Egyptian prophet. Also includes case notes for patients with hallucinations 1864-1870; letter from F W Conner to Professor Laycock complaining of the voices he hears, 1873; letter to the editors of the Daily Telegraph from someone with the delusion of being able to separate body and spirit; letter from Dr Robert Elliot enclosing letters from Robert Robinson, a patient with insomnia, 1871; 'On dreaming considered especially in relation to insanity' by Thomas More Madded, 1867; review of 'From Matter to Spirit', 1863; and small cuttings on dreams, anaesthetics, religious illusion etc 1861-1874. |