| Description Of Item | Notes for a lecture about chromatosis. Cachectic melanoma and the chemical details of chromatosis are discussed. A man called Mr Kelly from Mullingar is mentioned as someone whose skin turned blue. Cases of children are also considered. Press clippings have been pasted onto the notes. Two clippings with definitions related to chromatosis come from ‘The principles and methods of medical observation and research’ by Thomas Laycock. There is a clipping of Dr Mooren’s article ‘On Pigmentary Retinitis’, published in the Medical Times and Gazette on 23 July 1859, a clipping from an article published in The Lancet on 2 April 1864 about the post-mortem examination of a man who had subcutaneous melanoma, and a clipping of an article where [Arnaud-Michel or Antoine Thomson] d’Abbadie describes the skin colour of native peoples from Abyssinia [Ethiopia and Eritrea]. The notes are written by Thomas Laycock. |