| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 8 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].
'E. I. aged 33. This Female, who had no hereditary disposition to insanity, was seized with Puerperal Mania three days after the birth of her first child; she is here represented eight weeks after the commencement of her disorder — her face pale, and her eyes and mouth shut; at times she is very silent, at other times she is very noisy, and screams; she attempted to jump out at a window, is disposed to tear her clothes, and frequently drops on her knees; her conversation is incoherent, sometimes she says that she is strange, that she is mad, that she shall destroy her child, or cut her own throat; restraint is found necessary.' |