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The physiognomy of mental diseases (1838)

Morison, Alexander, 1779-1866 · London : Longman and co., and S. Highley · leaf 135

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Where local irritation is found to exist, the removal ofthe cause of this irritation has entirely cured the most severeform of the disorder : thus, by the excision of a largeportion of enlarged Nymphae, artificially produced, givingrise to Nymphomania, the disorder was completely cured. Seclusion,… … 79 EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXVII. EROTOMANIA. A. A., aged 25, a domestic servant. In this patient the disorder at first assumed the form ofMania, but was very soon limited to amatory ideas, andthese were directed towards the clergyman of her parish. She is now (at the time this portrait was taken)…

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