sentences:  In Edinburgh, Laycock was friendly with the asylum reformer William A.F.Browne (1805-1885) and was a major influence on his son, the psychiatrist James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938)
  
  During his mid-forties, Laycock suffered from phthisis (tuberculosis).His physicians told him that he did not have long to live, however, he went on to live for another twenty years.