| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 78 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of E. W. aged 40; long subject to violent fits of epilepsy.
This patient has been unable to take care of herself for fifteen years. Her fits take place in general a few days previous to the recurrence of the catamenia, which continue regular; she sometimes will give a short answer to a question or two, but if asked more, she is apt to laugh in a foolish manner; she occasionally sews a little, and appears to retain some affection for her friends; she is very quiet and harmless.' |