| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 27 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].
'A. A., aged 25, a domestic servant.
In this patient the disorder at first assumed the form of Mania, but was very soon limited to amatory ideas, and these were directed towards the clergyman of her parish.
She is now (at the time this portrait was taken) very affectionate in her manner and generally disposed to kiss, but she never transgresses the bounds of decency in language; her face is flushed and her eyes are brilliant.
She has been in this state about four months.' |