| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 16 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840), engraved by W H Lizars. Unsigned [François Rochard].
'Portrait of a Female in a state of Chronic Dementia, succeeding an attack of Mania.
Nothing arrest her attention, she does not speak a word, but requires restraint to prevent her tearing her clothes.' |