| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 20 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'H. T., aged 60, a poor man who supposed himself to be a very exalted personage, and assumed the title of Head General of the whole world; his constant occupation was shuffling a pack of cards and laying them out before him, saying that he was learning to play; his observations on other subjects were generally correct; he continued nearly in the same state of mind for twenty years, and died of apoplexy.' |