| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 13 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of an old woman, D. B., aged 72. Mania, not hereditary, of nine weeks duration; after an attack of inflammation, with jaundice, she became maniacal, talked loudly and incoherently, and became outragious [sic] in her conduct; she required personal restraint.' |