| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 32 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of M. A. R., a married female, aged 40, labouring under an attack of Monomania with fear — the cause not known; she fancies that she sees persons who are dead, which terrifies her, is afraid of doing injury to her husband, and has made a hesitating attempt to commit suicide; the disorder lasted about 18 months, when she recovered.
Laxatives, Warm Bathing, and the Shower Bath, were employed with advantage.' |