| Description Of Item | 10 press cuttings from the collection of Thomas Laycock.
A press cutting that reports that the Presse Médicale Belge recently reported that a pill of asafoetida and morphine sulphate could effectively treat hysteria. It is noted that it is particularly useful for treating ‘the dry cough’ that impacted menstruating women.
A press cutting about a two-year-old child with a malformed heart who died at the Royal Infirmary for Children. The child’s heart was showed by Samuel Wilks at a meeting of the Pathological Society on 7 May 1862. The article was printed in the Medical Times and Gazette on 31 May 1862.
A press cutting about a woman who, after her death, was found to have blood clots in her pulmonary arteries. Her case was presented at a meeting of the Pathological Society on 20 December 1864. The article was printed in the Medical Times and Gazette on 7 January 1865.
A press cutting about Thomas Richard Fraser using a sphygmograph to record the pulse traces of university boat rowers. This was originally reported in the British Medical Journal on 28 November 1868.
A press cutting about the death of a 61-year-old woman whose autopsy found a ruptured heart. A specimen was shown by Jabez Spence Ramskill at a meeting of the Pathological Society on 5 December 1865. The article was printed in The Medical Circular on 27 December 1865.
A press cutting about a 21-year-old woman who died at the Victoria Park Hospital. The autopsy found that her heart’s valves had ruptured when she was vomiting. The measurements of her heart were compared to the measurements of a healthy male’s heart. This case was presented at a meeting of the Pathological Society on 20 December 1864. The article was printed in The Medical Circular on 11 January 1865.
A press cutting about [Pierre Henry Lucien] Papillaud successfully using arsenic and antimony to treat heart diseases. The article was printed on 21 June 1865 in The Medical Circular.
A press cutting of a letter sent to the editor of the Medical Times and Gazette by William Bedford Kesteven from Upper Holloway on 6 January 1863. The letter endorses Henry William Fuller’s view that digitalis could effectively treat heart problems. The letter was printed in the Medical Times and Gazette on 17 January 1863.
A page that contains two articles about heart health. The first describes overstrain of the heart. Boat racing is mentioned as a well-known cause of this. This article was originally printed in Deutsches Archiv and Révue des Sciences Médicales in 1874. The second article describes the case of a 30-year-old woman who died from chronic heart disease with dropsy and ascites. This article is not included in its entirety. This press cutting comes from the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review from October 1874.
A press cutting about an autopsy of a man, where several blood clots multiple inches long were discovered in his body. A 20-inch-long clot was found in the right ventricle. These findings were originally reported on in the Medical Times and Gazette by Druitt but were printed here in The Medical Circular on 23 July 1862. |