| Description Of Item | Press cutting of an article published on 17 August 1864 in The Medical Circular about thoracentesis. It describes a debate within the Medical Society of the Hospitals of Paris in which Jules Béhier considered its usage with tuberculosis. It is a reprinting of an article originally published in the Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Press cutting of an article published on 1 February 1862 in The Medical Times and Gazette about the connection between herpes and pneumonia as observed by Geissler of Leipzig. It is a reprinting of an article originally published in Froriep's Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Press cutting of an article about Alfred Patton’s experimentation with internally administrating ammonium carbonate to treat pneumonia. It references his article ‘Carbonate of Ammonia in the treatment of Pneumonitis’, originally published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences in October 1870. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Press cutting of an article published on 21 June 1862 in The Medical Times and Gazette about a syringe developed by Louis Blaise and James Lane that was designed to draw fluid from the cavity of the pleura. The syringe is described in detail and has an accompanying illustration. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Press cutting of an article from The Medical Gazette published on 22 January 1847. It describes Dr Zimmermann’s methods of treating thoracic inflammation. It is a reprinting of text originally published in the British and Foreign Medical Review. An additional statement at the end expresses that the article contained insufficient data to be of practical use and that it was reprinted here only because it was interesting. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Press cutting from an article summarising Austin Flint’s paper ‘Clinical Report on Pneumonia, based on an analysis of one hundred and thirty-three cases’, which was published in the American Journal of Medical Sciences in January 1861. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Press cutting from The Medical Press and Circular, published on 13 June 1866. The article describes the 30 May 1866 meeting of the Medical Society of the College of Physicians of Ireland, focusing on John August Byrne’s observations of the case of a 30-year-old woman who died from a pulmonary abscess after giving birth. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Press cutting from the British Medical Journal published on 29 November 1873 about a paper on pneumonia in children, presented by William Stephenson to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh on 5 November 1873. Responses from Daniel Rutherford Haldane, Matthew Duncan, George William Balfour and James Carmichael are included. Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich is also mentioned. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Press cutting of a letter from a writer called Medicus providing analysis of the influence of age on mortality rates, considering also the differences between metropolitan and rural environments. Tables of statistics are provided, separated by sex. The figures come from the Registrar-General’s Annual Reports. The letter is dated 12 December 1846. From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
Press cutting of an article published on 2 April 1862 about thoracentesis. A paragraph about the connection between pleurisy and tuberculosis and the subsequent impact on the thoracentesis procedure has been marked with blue pencil. Armand Trousseau and [Francois-Amilcar] Aran are mentioned. Thomas Laycock has written ‘Trousseau on Hydrothorax’ on the top of the page.
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