| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 52 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of P. M. aged 46.
This patient had been several months insane when she committed the crime for which she was tried, viz. suddenly attacking a woman, who slept with her, and strangling her.
It did not appear whether or not she was led to do so by delusion.
She has now fallen into a state of fatuity, but still exhibits occasional fits of violence.' |