The morbid emotions of women; their origin, tendencies, and treatment / By Walter Johnson.

  • Johnson, Walter, M.B, approximately 1825-1913?
Date:
1850
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Credit: The morbid emotions of women; their origin, tendencies, and treatment / By Walter Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Alexander, and the former emulating the weak- ness of patient Grizel. But in a short time all this changes; each assumes his proper and per- manent character, and occupies his allotted station. Then we see the boy, returned from some juvenile Waterloo, boastingly exhibit his bleeding nose and blackened eye, while his sympathising sister dresses the honorable bruises with vinegar and brown paper. Then also the boy, cruel to cock- chafers, and persecutor of cats, manifests the same stern resolution which, at some after-period, he may have to display from his seat on the bench, or his chair at the camp-council. His sister, the while, grieves and complains at the barbarity of her brother, nourishing only gentle feelings and world-wide benevolence. The symbol of this sen- timent of universal charity is her doll. It is the personification of an idea—it is Good-will, made wood. Some intuition of this fact seems to exist more or less in the breasts of children themselves ; at least, if I may judge from a remark made by a little friend, seven years of age, Master P . “ Mamma/’ said the child, “ dost thee think that doll is derived from idol ? Bessy wor- ships her doll, I am sure, as much as the Israelites worshipped the golden calf.” The child perceived the fact, but, of course, its significance and ulti- mate tendency were as yet without interpretation.