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Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 12 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].

'Portrait of A. H., No. II, in the interval of his mental disorder. This interval…

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 10 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].

'E. I. plate 8, restored to reason. In this case a blister applied to the nape of the…

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed By A J [Alexander Johnston].

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed by A J [Alexander Johnston].

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed By A J [Alexander Johnston].

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C Gow.

This bottle contains white powder.

The most prominent use for camphorated chalk was as a tooth powder. Chalk was often used in early dentifrices and camphor would have been added for its antiseptic properties. Tooth powders could be made by…

A small cylindrical medicine vial with a handwritten label that reads ‘Calomel [gtt.?]’, containing a small amount of off-white powder.

Calomel, or mercuric chloride, is a rare naturally occurring mineral introduced as medicine in the year…

A cylindrical bottle with a wooden stopper containing Calcarea Carbonica, prepared by a homeopathic chemist Joseph James, Promenade Place, Cheltenham, who had worked for Arthur Guinness M.D. and undertook the company and changed the name to Joseph…