| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 61 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J[Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of J. T. D. aged 40.
Little is known of the previous history of this man, except that he was a day labourer, he had been insane four years before his death, and was so much addicted to this unnatural vice that it was necessary to seclude him from other patients, whom he continually annoyed: on one occasion the mouth of an idiot boy was the recipient: he died a few months ago of phthisis pulmonalis.' |