| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 6 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].
'E. E. L. aged 20. This Female, was seized with Puerperal Mania ten days after the birth of her second child, whom she had suckled for several days— her face was flushed, her eyes had a wild glistening appearance, and wandered rapidly from one object to another; she became very restless, tore her clothes, laid herself on the floor, knocked down her nurse, and required restraint; her conversation was incoherent, she talked of having thousands of children; she had no hereditary disposition to insanity.' |