| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 56 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of M. C, a married female, aged 27, with a hereditary pre-disposition to insanity.
She has been seven months insane, and previous to her insanity, is stated by her husband, to have been a hard working honest woman; now she steals every thing she can lay hold of, even before her husband's eyes, and she is quite idle, so much so indeed, as to refuse to put on her own clothes.' |