Record

Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/59
TitleLecture file of Thomas Laycock: Sexual Instincts and Sentiments - Perversions - Erotic and Domestic
Date1858-1873
TermMental illness
Asylum
Description Of ItemContains 'Forms of unnatural erotic orexiae' with pasted cuttings on child abuse, letters with accusations of obscene practices from John Fenn Russell, a patient with mental illness; 'Physiology and pathology of the sexual orexiae' with pasted cuttings; and 'Special pathology of hedonic exaltations and perversions of sex'. Also includes case notes of masturbators 1858-1863; case notes of chronic mania and excessive sexual desire; letters from W C McIntosh, Perth District Asylum on cases there, 1861-1873; letter from JSB on nocturnal emissions, 1868; and small cuttings.
Extent1 folder
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