Gericault's 1822 historical depiction of this madwoman with gambling mania was one of ten paintings commissioned by the Salpetriere to show psychiatric disease in facial appearance (physiognomies). The author speculates on a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, a disorder only recently described by James Parkinson (1817), but probably already known to French Neurology.
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