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Captioned 'Sarah Lardner recovered 12 May 1847'.
Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C G [Charles Gow].
Captioned 'Sarah Anne Lardner Bethlem cataleptic symptoms January 1847'.
Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C Gow.
Captioned 'Salter propensity to excessive masturbation - died'.
Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C Gow. Reproduced in Morison’s 'Outlines of Lectures' (1848) plate 3.
'Robert S: Aged thirty-eight, a butler in a gentleman's family, was admitted into the Surrey Lunatic Asylum on…
'Robert S: Aged thirty-eight, a butler in a gentleman's family, was admitted into the Surrey Lunatic Asylum on…
Captioned 'S S acute dementia recovered'.
Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 69 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of No. LXVIII. restored to reason.
In the course of a few months this woman…
'Portrait of No. LXVIII. restored to reason.
In the course of a few months this woman…
Captioned 'S S acute dementia Bethlem'.
Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 68 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of S. S.; an unmarried female; aged 27.
This person had been an attendant upon…
'Portrait of S. S.; an unmarried female; aged 27.
This person had been an attendant upon…
Captioned 'S C aged 49 demonomania - oh I am the serpent I am the devil I am the cause of all the misery - this patient is continually crying oh oh and rubbing the sides of her head so as to prevent the hair growing'.
Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 45 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [François Rochard].
'Portrait of S. C. aged 48, a publican's wife, without children.
The assigned cause of…
'Portrait of S. C. aged 48, a publican's wife, without children.
The assigned cause of…
Captioned 'S aged 97 imbecility of old age with occasional fits of excitement died aged 100'.
Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 95 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [François Rochard]. Also reproduced in 'Outlines of Lectures' (1848) plate 9, identified as 'Mary H' presumably in…
Captioned 'Puerperal mania Bethlem under restraint, singing and saying she is queen of Great Britain'.
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…
'E. E. L. aged 20. This Female, was seized with Puerperal Mania ten days after the…
Captioned 'propensity to thieving'.
Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 53 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of E. L., an unmarried female, aged 28.
This woman is continually stealing…
'Portrait of E. L., an unmarried female, aged 28.
This woman is continually stealing…
Captioned 'Propensity to injure Bethlem'.
Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].