Record

Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/60
TitleLecture file of Thomas Laycock: Social Sentiments and Aberrations - Morias
Date1850s-1870s
TermPost mortem
Description Of ItemContains 'Moria - Egoistic Insanity - Insane Folly' with pasted cuttings on relevant cases and an extract from a textbook on euthymia; 'First Clinical Lecture - on the method of observation in insanity and examination of the insane'; 'Development of the sexual and reproductive feelings and sentiments as family and domestic or social orexiae' with pasted cuttings; 'Volitional Activity - Kinetic orexiae - Nature of Will' with an illustration of Tom Sayers, English boxing champion, related to a section on appetite for muscular activity and an extract from a textbook on social orexies; 'Trophical or Nutrient Appetites' with pasted cuttings on relevant cases; and 'Social moria and erotic moria' with pasted cuttings on eccentricities, collecting, misers, mesmerism, witchcraft. Also includes case notes; letter from A Munro, Glasgow enclosing a letter from a patient, Doctor Nicola, 1871; letter from Henry D Littlejohn, Edinburgh on a patient with delusions; letter from J Matthew Duncan, Edinburgh concerning a patient Mrs Milligan, 1871; illegible letter from a patient; jottings of post mortem on M[_?] Walker, 1864; quotation titled 'strutting dandies'; and small cuttings on spiritualism, medical superstitions etc.
Extent2 folders
Add to My Items