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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    34 TABLE IV.—[Continued]. o s's f-t C$ © GO a O • V (M External Size of Cerebral “ Organs.” Actual Character. addicted to periodical fits of intemper¬ ance ; has left the town where he was formerly established in business, and wanders about from place to place visit¬ ing his relatives or otherwise. O c3 * r-H P c3 a o Pi. o to §.S I T c3 I • rH <v p <D a <D A O P p 33 o> t- o co 1.—Large. Amativeness, Philoprogeni¬ tiveness, Adhesiveness, Acquisitiveness, Cautious¬ ness, Benevolence, Indivi¬ duality, Locality, Order, Eventuality, Comparison, Causality. 2.—Moderate. Concentrativeness, Comba¬ tiveness, Self-esteem, Love of Approbation, Imitation, Constructiveness. 3.—Small. Veneration, Wonder. When admitted, believed he was married, and insisted on his supposed wife (a fe¬ male relative) accompanying him to his gallery ; now exhibits a penchant for one of the lady-officers of the Institution ; long a masturbator; announces himself as a noble earl and a knight; claims to be the designer of some of the largest and most successful engineering under¬ takings of the day; was at one time a most ingenious mechanician and accurate draughtsman; is naturally shy, diffi¬ dent, and reserved ; when excited, is quarrelsome, turbulent, and noisy. H3 <D • »—i s- c3 a 1.—Large. Concentrativeness, Adhe¬ siveness, Combativeness, Acquisitiveness, Love of Approbation, Benevolence, Individuality, Locality, Order, Tune, Comparison, Causality. 2 .-—Moderate. <u Us a cS c cS .O ’a o o Amativeness, Philoprogeni¬ tiveness, Destructiveness, Alimentiveness, Secretive¬ ness, Constructiveness, Self-esteem, Cautiousness, Veneration, Firmness, Con¬ scientiousness, Hope, Wit. 3.—Small. Wonder, Ideality, Eventu¬ ality, Time. Obscene, gross, or sensual in his ideas and conversation in private; in society behaves as a polished gentleman; appears to en¬ tertain no affection for his wife ; speaks of her in the most disparaging way, but seems gratified passively by her occa¬ sional visits ; fancies himself possessed of great wealth, which he is disposed to distribute most lavishly ; thinks nothing of offering one of the officers a pension of a thousand pounds a-year, and others pensions amounting in all to several thousands per annum, and this without any services tendered to him, or other return adequate or inadequate; boasts of his connection with wealthy families, and with large works throughout Scotland; believes he has discovered the key to a great variety of circum¬ stances which ordinary mortals do not suppose connected by any common cause ; fickle and capricious in his occu-