| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 19 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840), engraved by W H Lizars. Unsigned [François Rochard].
'M. W., aged 35, a female in whom, although a pauper, ideas of wealth and grandeur are predominant — she conceives herself to be an Irish princess, and possessed of great wealth.
She is liable to violent fits of fury when her delusions are called in question, but talks rationally on subjects unconnected with them. She is still alive, and has continued to cherish the same erroneous ideas, without increase or diminution, for about twenty years — no symptoms of palsy have appeared, and she now requires very little personal restraint.' |