| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 21 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'L. T., aged 74, a widow, who has been insane for a considerable number of years; she conceives herself to be mistress of the universe, and of unbounded power; in her the state of monomania is passing into dementia, as she is occasionally incoherent in her discourse.' |