| Description Of Item | A press cutting of an article by A. Garden published in The Indian Medical Gazette titled ‘On Disorders of Pigmentation’. It was printed across multiple issues. Lentigines and melasma are discussed in depth, with the works of many doctors and surgeons discussed, including Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Isidor Neumann, William James Erasmus Wilson, Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs, Etienne Lancereaux. The connection between skin discolouration and race, pregnancy, malaria, cancer and Addison’s disease is described in detail. The cases of two Hindu women who experienced skin discolouration are also described. The item also contains additional pages from The Indian Medical Gazette that include the articles ‘Cases of Pneumonia on the N.W. Frontier’ by Joshua Duke and ‘Insane Delusions’ by David Boyes Smith. From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |