"The pathological anatomy of idiocy: resumé": notes by Shuttleworth and Fletcher Beach (1846-1929)

Holograph MS by Beach, followed by holograph notes by Shuttleworth. Shuttleworth's notes consist of an abstract of Alexander Hill's [1856-1929] 'The anatomy of a hydromicrocephalous brain' published in the Journal of Anatomy & Physiology, 1884, Vol. 19, pp. 363-365, with a rough pen-drawing of the patient, and a note on hypertrophy of the brain.

c. 1895

1 volume 6 ll. + 6 ll. + 8 bl. ll. 4to. 23 × 18 cm. Original covers. Written on the rectos only.

Presented 1929.

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Mental Health Archives digitisation project.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).