| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C [Charles] Gow. Reproduced in Morison’s 'Outlines of Lectures' (1848) plate 3.
'Robert S: Aged thirty-eight, a butler in a gentleman's family, was admitted into the Surrey Lunatic Asylum on the 16th Nov., 1841, labouring under an attack of partial insanity, with unnatural propensities. He was sent to Horsemonger-lane Gaol, where he had been imprisoned in consequence of attempting to gratify his unnatural propensities. His conduct was violent and excited, and his language and actions grossly indecent; he also said that he had had criminal desires ever since his youth, — that he had been confined in three different prisons, and that he had been tried in 1820, and in 1841. He died in about two months after his admission, of Phthisis, and exhaustion from long continued cerebral excitement. On examination after death, along with other appearances there was observed a large ulcer in the cerebellum.' |