A man diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with strong suicidal tendency. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1837, for Sir Alexander Morison.

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<p>A patient at Bethlem Hospital, Southwark, described in an inscription on the verso of Johnston's drawing as "Melancholy/propensity to suicide/Bethlem". Expanded in Morison's The physiognomy of mental diseases, 1840: "T.C., aged 50, has had a determined propensity to suicide, of long continuance - his insanity is believed to have been brought on by intemperance-he was formerly in very good circumstances."</p>

A man diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with strong suicidal tendency. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1837, for Sir Alexander Morison.

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