Thirty-third annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics, near Perth. June, 1860.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics
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1860
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Credit: Thirty-third annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics, near Perth. June, 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If) or Sentiments,—the first-named faculties being moderate in 60'57 cases, while the Propensities were so in 44*99 cases, and the Sentimenst in 41*53. As regards the difference of the sexes, both Propensities, Senti¬ ments, and Intellectual Faculties, were very large and very small in a greater number of males, both absolutely and relatively, than of females. The Propensities were also large in a greater number of males ; the Sen¬ timents slightly so; while the Intellectual Faculties were in numbers equal in the sexes, but relatively greater in the males. All three groups were moderate in a greater number of females than males; while all three were small in a greater number of males than females. These statistics would appear to point to a more equable development of the cerebral organs in the female than the male head. From the abstract of Table II. it would appear that, taking the “Deveiop- mean of the first 12 special phases or forms of Insanity, the groups of ^organs” in “ organs,” which we should expect to have been more or less implicated, o'rin- were moderate in the greatest number of cases; large in the next sanity, greatest number; then small, very large, and very small. Taking the mean of the second section of six organs, as developed in the same phases or forms of Insanity above referred to [section 1], they were almost equally moderate and large in the sexes; in the next greatest number of cases they were small, then very large, and lastly very small. The general conclusion arrived at is that, in the majority of cases referred to in Table II., the organs were neither markedly large nor small; and that there was therefore no relation between the size of the said organs and the said phases or forms of Insanity. As to the different develop¬ ment of organs in the two sexes, in the first section the organs were very large in an equal number of cases ; large in more males than females; moderate in about an equal number; small in more males than females; and very small in more males than females, in whom, indeed, the organs were never very small. In the second section, the organs were very large, large, and moderate in more females than males; and small and very small in more males than females, in whom, indeed, as has been already stated, no organs were very small. From the abstract of Table III. it appears that, while apparently the actual character of the patient, in some of its features more gene¬ rally than as a whole, confirmed the phrenological analysis in 36 cases out of a total of 117, and the evidence which the said character fur¬ nished was seemingly directly opposed to the same analysis in 14 cases, either no evidence at all, or insufficient evidence, was yielded in 67 cases. In other words, the evidence was either opposed, absent, or insufficient more than twice as often as it was confirmatory—that is, in the proportion of 81 to 36 cases. This again points to a decided want of correspondence between the phrenological analysis and the actual character; and, like the preceding, as well as the following tables, such Correspond¬ ence or non- correspond¬ ence between Phrenologi¬ cal analysis of Head and actual char¬ acter of indi¬ vidual. F