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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    TABLE VI.—[Continued]. Form of Insanity. .5 p eg £ ■5 i o r~* O id aJ P o S-. -P P O « <o cS P o Si rP 9 a g i aM CP ft °p cS c3 p r*- 03 m | P j § G *1 O P a-s | .2 i & 00 p m o • n P p o si- pa p ^ a p J-q M. Conformational Peculiarities. Head oblong ; forehead high ; occiput full. Philoprogenitiveness, Con- centrativeness, Adhesive¬ ness, all very large. Bene¬ volence, Wonder, and Wit, large ; Acquisitiveness moderate; Secretiveness, Veneration, small. Head has the form of a cone, the base being above the ears, where it is especially broad. Destructiveness and Combat¬ iveness moderate. Head low anteriorly, and generally small; towers in the position of Venera¬ tion and Firmness, both of which organs are pro¬ minent, the latter particu¬ larly so. Head low, shallow, and slop¬ ing ; contracted or narrow laterally ; high, and tilted up posteriorly. Self-esteem and Individu¬ ality large; Love of Ap¬ probation moderate; Con¬ structiveness and Ideality small. Base broad; head long an- tero-posteriorly; somewhat flattened superiorly; sa¬ gittal suture open. Actual Character. At one time appears to have suffered from Coup de Soleil in a tropical cli¬ mate ; is in the habit of hoarding pieces of bread, string, glass, wood, &c,, which he constantly carries about in his hands, preserving them most tenaciously; used to prostrate himself before one officer, whom he believed to be Mahomet—before another, whom he believed to be Queen Mary—and be¬ fore a fellow-patient, whom he fancied was Christ; has a variety of other de¬ lusions of an equally absurd character ; fond of a joke and of childish amuse¬ ments ; is kind and playful, though subject to paroxysms of irritability ; given to chaunting the Old C. and other Psalms, which he remembers per¬ fectly.— Vide Table III., sec. II. 11, sec. III. 2, sec. V. 1. Tall, powerful man, with great muscular energy and of exuberant animal spirits; vent is given to these at severe manual labour ; otherwise he is most destruc¬ tive to clothing, and shows a strong propensity to pugilism and assault. Existence almost vegetative ; taciturn, childish, and contented, expressing neither wants nor wishes of any kind ; the only occupation for which he has ever been fitted is that of feeding pigs. — Vide Table III., sec. XV. 9. Vain, imperious, and turbulent; has de¬ lusions as to the existence in his body of a certain form of organic disease, and as to his food being poisoned ; is a good workman, but works only by fits and starts; subject to periodical ex¬ citement, marked by his being indo¬ lent, obstinate, impertinent, and insub¬ ordinate ; during the intervals of ex¬ citement is comparatively industrious and docile. Existence almost vegetative; harmless, childish, playful, garrulous, incoherent in speech, self-willed, and irritable; fitted only for the most mechanical oc¬ cupations, such as herding cows.