| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 69 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of No. LXVIII. restored to reason.
In the course of a few months this woman became lively and intelligent; employed herself in sewing and other domestic occupations, and was quite restored to health of body and of mind in about half a year. The means employed were a course of laxative medicines, with nourishing diet, and twelve applications of the cold douche whilst in the warm bath.' |