| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C [Charles] Gow. Reproduced in Morison’s 'Outlines of Lectures' (1848) plate 4.
'Eliza V: Aged forty-three, unmarried, a lady's-maid, was admitted into Bethlehem Hospital on the 27th March, 1846, labouring under an attack of Mania, complicated with Hysteria, of two weeks duration. The causes of the malady are stated to have been disappointment in love, and erroneous views on religious subjects. Her temper is passionate and her habits were sober, until within a short period of the attack. On her admission, her conduct was found at times to be very spiteful and unmanageable. Her memory was impaired; she was subject to violent fits of Hysteria, and expressed herself in a very loose and sometimes incoherent manner. Purgatives and tonic medicines were employed in her case, and she was discharged cured, after about two months treatment.' |