| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 5 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840) (engraved version by W H Lizars). Unsigned [François Rochard].
'Portrait of a married female, aged 50; she has been for a considerable length of time in a state of Mania, subject to violent exacerbations. She is in general in a state of abstraction, in which she is here represented. Occasionally she is very furious and always dangerous.
From the duration of the disease, without amendment, it is probable that it will terminate in Dementia.' |