| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 1 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'F. W. a Male, aged 47, has had attacks of Mania since he was a boy; during these attacks he is in a state of the most violent rage and fury; irascible emotions are easily excited by opening his door, looking at him, or saying a word, and a paroxysm of increased fury is produced the moment the offensive impression is made; he requires to be under constant personal restraint, otherwise he would destroy himself or others; indeed he has already killed one person during a violent paroxysm of fury. The attack of insanity lasts for several months.' |