| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 25 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'J. O.; a second portrait, taken a month after Plate XXIV. In this patient the disorder had made rapid progress — the embarrassment of his speech increased, his memory was nearly abolished, he tottered very much, indeed could scarcely walk at all, and, notwithstanding his appetite was very good, he rapidly became thinner: his head had been shaved, leeches had been applied three times, and moderate purging had been employed, but nothing could prevent the rapid progress of the disorder.' |