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The physiognomy of mental diseases / by Sir Alexander Morison.

Alexander Morison, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library · 1838 · London : Longman and co., and S. Highley, 1838. · 57 pictures

A psychiatry treatise by Sir Alexander Morison, published in London in 1838 by Longman and Highley for physicians and medical readers studying mental illness through facial appearance. Its pictures are soft graphite portrait sketches of men's heads and shoulders on tinted paper, with loose hatching and dark hair masses that a designer could take as a model for quick expressive figure drawing and tonal shading.

Psychiatry · Mental illness - Diagnosis · Physiognomy

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