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The Faces of Madness? Sir Alexander Morison and The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases

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In this talk Dr Allan Beveridge discusses the nineteenth centry Scottish pioneer of psychiatric medicine Sir Alexander Morison and the collection of illustrations of asylum patients which he commissioned.

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