| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 76 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of H. E. aged 56; a married woman and mother of a family; she has been fourteen years insane; her disorder was in the beginning violent mania, she is now in a state of dementia. No. xvi. may be referred to as another case of dementia, preceded by mania.
For some months this patient has been nearly quite silent, and when spoken to, walks off and tries to hide herself; for several years and until very lately, she used to talk a great deal incoherently; a singular feature in her is, that in every word she pronounces each letter individually.' |