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persons[1], which have been perused with much interest, and deserve to be rendered into English : and in our own country there exists a learned monument of madness, distinguished by abrupt transitions, a generous reconciliation of discordant circumstances, with a felicitous remembrance of transactions that never occurred, and which constitute the broad features of genuine insanity. That the reader may duly appreciate the labours of this gentleman, an extract is submitted to his candid consideration[2].
“ I conclude with offering an interpretation of a few lines from a part of the 3d Æneid, which, according to what is said in my former Notes, p. 140, to which Notes I
- ↑ Biographien der Wahnsinnigen, von Krist. Heinrich Spiess, Leipzig, 1 795.
- ↑ Vide “ A Supplement to Notes on the Ancient Method of Treating the Fever of Andalusia, now called the Yellow Fever, deduced from an Explanation of the Hieroglyphics painted upon the Cambridge Mummy, by Robert Deverell, Esq. M. P. May 19, 1806,” page 38. It is a subject of regret that these scarce and luminous pages were privately printed.
