| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 49 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of F. P. aged 27; a farmer.
A disappointment in marriage is stated to have been the cause of this man's insanity, which was principally manifested in violent ungovernable conduct; when in his father's house he attempted to murder both his father and his mother; when sent to an asylum he put to death one of the patients, and continued so dangerous, when this portrait was taken, as to require the strictest coercion.
He can give no account of the motives which actuated him to these acts of violence.' |