| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C [Charles] Gow. Reproduced in Morison’s 'Outlines of Lectures' (1848) plate 18.
'Richard S: Aged thirty-nine, an idiot from birth, has been all his life in the workhouse. This idiot is capable of some degree of education, and is employed in teazing hair for mattrasses [sic], and in turning a mangle. He is very subject to epileptic fits: his head is remarkably small, with a retreating forehead: he is nearly blind, and squints very much.' |