| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 71 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of No. LXX. restored to reason.
This person was about seven months under treatment. The remedial measures employed were a course of rather strong laxatives, by which the condition of the stomach and bowels, previously much out of order, was improved, and the application of the cold douche, whilst in the warm bath, about thirty times.' |