| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 37 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'M. E., aged 43, a married woman, without children, was deserted by her husband, which threw her into a state of low spirits for about a year, to which delirium was gradually joined; about ten weeks before her portrait was taken she made an attempt to drown herself, but appears not to have had courage to accomplish her design, for she was found in a large pool of water, where she had been standing several hours.
In this case much benefit was derived from the employment of purgative and tonic medicines.' |