| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 14 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of D. B., No. 13, in a state of monomania; in this case the state of general insanity ceased, and monomania, with ideas of grandeur, took its place; she. conceived herself to be a queen.
After ten months she retained the same idea, but was very quiet, and made herself useful in domestic work; some time after this she became paralytic.' |