| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 47 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of T. W. aged 48.
This person was a Schoolmaster; he has been insane upwards of five years, during the greater part of which time his hatred of mankind has been conspicuous, he has associated with no one, has seldom or ever spoken, and when spoken to has immediately withdrawn with a look of contempt and dislike; he has frequently dropped on his knees, and if noticed, has risen up immediately, and if he could, has run out of sight. Of late his antipathy to others has been less strongly marked.' |