| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed Chas [Charles] Gow. Reproduced in Morison’s 'Outlines of Lectures' (1848) plate 12.
'Martha S: Aged twenty, the wife of a labourer, was admitted into Bethlehem Hospital on the 15th October, 1841, labouring under an attack of acute Dementia, arising from puerperal causes. She became insane about a fortnight after the delivery of her child, and was at first violent, and even attempted to commit suicide; she, however, in the course of a day or two, became quite silent, and presented all the appearance of a person labouring under acute Dementia. After remaining under treatment for about six months, she was discharged cured. On her recovery, she declared that she had no recollection of anything that had occured [sic] during her illness, — that the whole had been a blank to her. The remedies employed were, laxatives, counter-irritation, the warm bath, and the douche. ' |