| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C [Charles] Gow. Reproduced in Morison’s 'Outlines of Lectures' (1848) plate 11.
'Richard G: Aged forty-seven, formerly a labourer, was admitted into the Surrey Asylum labouring under an attack of Monomania; the only delusion under which he labours being, that he has no bottom nor inside, and that he is wasting away, and will be quite gone by night: on every other subject he is quite rational, and makes himself very useful in the wards. The fixed expression of his countenance is very characteristic of the form of insanity under which he labours.' |