| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 64 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of J. C, aged 40.
This man has a perpetual craving for strong drink and tobacco. Although he is naturally of a quiet disposition and harmless, yet, on one occasion, when his mother refused to indulge him, he gave her a blow, which, unfortunately, caused her death; upon trial, he was acquitted on the ground of insanity, and is now in confinement; is rather weak in mind, and is continually endeavouring to get drink.' |