Aged twenty-nine, admitted 3d May 1821. This poor young woman was one
of the unhappy victims of religious superstition. She had been cook
in a respectable family before she received her _call_; but from that
time forth she lapsed into distraction, and wild enthusiasm. She was
much disordered when here, and entertained the notion that she was
with child by ----. She had been with him repeatedly; knew him well,
and, in the course of her intimacy with him, became pregnant. When any
of the other patients spoke to her, she would gently rebuke them, and
tell them to beware how they addressed her; but whether this proceeded
from the notion of her pregnancy, or of her personal greatness, was
not known. She was a single woman, cleanly, regular, harmless, and
inoffensive. She became better of her disease, obtained a month’s leave
of absence, came back at the end of that time to return thanks, and was
discharged well, in March 1822.
She afterwards went down to Bath, to service, but became again
deranged, and, in a fit of despondency, unfortunately drowned herself.