| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Unsigned [Charles Gow]. Reproduced in Morison’s 'Outlines of Lectures' (1848) plate 22.
'Ellen T: The portrait of a patient in the Surrey Asylum, labouring under Dementia of many years standing. This patient's history is rather a sad one: she was the daughter of a gentleman of fortune, and became insane from a blow she received by a fall from horseback; shortly after this her father died a ruined man, and his daughter was sent, at the expense of the parish, to a pauper asylum, from whence she was removed to the county asylum, on its opening in 1841.' |