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The physiognomy of mental diseases (1838)

Morison, Alexander, 1779-1866 · London : Longman and co., and S. Highley · leaf 51

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25 EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII. E. E. L. plate 6, restored to reason. This patients headwas shaved, and mild laxatives were given; a state ofstupidity, approaching to dementia, succeeded the vio-lent stage, from which she gradually recovered in aboutsix months from the commencement of her disease. The… … V \ Y fly .1 27 EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIII. E. I. aged 33. This Female, who had no hereditary dispo-sition to insanity, was seized with Puerperal Mania threedays after the birth of her first child ; she is here repre-sented eight weeks after the commencement of her dis-order—her face pale, and her…

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