| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 4 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of No. 3, restored to reason. This patient was in a state of Mania for nine months; she is now quite restored to reason, and is conducting herself with great propriety, as a domestic servant.
The remedies employed were those generally used, with the addition of leeches to the head, blister to the nape of the neck, small doses of Tartarized Antimony and the Douche.' |