| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 12 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of A. H., No. II, in the interval of his mental disorder. This interval lasts several weeks, during it he has fits of epilepsy every two or three days, but is calm and collected, and conducts himself with propriety — his bowels are extremely torpid, requiring strong medicines during the maniacal state; and he requires personal restraint, and seclusion in a dark chamber.' |