| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 59 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of R. C. aged 52.
This man was a soldier in the Marine service, from which he was discharged insane; some years after his discharge he was tried for the crime, 23 years ago, to which he has still so strong a propensity as to require his being separated from the rest of the patients in the establishment — he is of a cunning disposition, and has insane ideas of grandeur.' |