| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 34 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of S. J., a married female, aged 37. This female was seized with Mania, the consequence of over exertion; after being maniacal for three months, she became full of insane fear, was terrified at every thing, and made some attempts at suicide.
Laxatives, Anodynes, and Tonics, were employed with advantage.' |