| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 46 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [François Rochard].
'Portrait of F. P., aged 55, married, and the mother of a large family; in this female the disorder commenced with low spirits, without known cause, she complained of a fixed pain in one spot of the crown of her head, and of strong pulsation in the abdominal aorta.
She is urgent to be put to death, because the devil is alive within her — and she says, that the Lord comes every night to tell her so.
Some alleviation of her disorder was obtained by the application of leeches to the pained part of her head.' |