Beadle's Dime Novels No. 14 — page 95: what you’re looking at

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AN ANECDOTE OF HALLUCINATION. _ 93 began the doctor, taking a chair where he could look at the portrait at his ease. “ Indeed, I have made brain disorders a- study. Such illusions as you have labored under, are very common in cases of insanity, when beginning to develop, but are also produced by other causes, as for instance, some kinds of drugs and poisons, whose effects are principally upon the brain. Dr. Arnold relates a very striking case of incipient in- sanity, where the effects were something similar—not that I think you are ihsane,” he interrupted himself, with a smile, as he saw Pennon flush to the brow; “a very interesting case, indeed, which I am minded to tell you.. | “A gentleman, aged thirty-five, active, and in good health, living near London had for five weeks complained of a slight headache. He was rather feverish and neglected his: avoca- tions and his family. He had been cupped and had taken some medicine, when he received a visit from Dr. Arnold, by whose advice he was placed in an asylum, where he passed two years; his delirious fancies lessened by degrees until he was restored to his family, in sane mind. His story is thus told- by himself :— “ “One afternoon in the month of May, feeling a little unwell and indisposed for business, I determined to take a walk in _the city to divert myself Having reached St. Paul’s Church- yard, I stopped at the print shop of Carrington to look at some engravings of the cathedral. I had been there buta short time, when an old gentleman, stout, seriously looking, and dressed in brown, also stopped to examine them. Our by chance meeting, he commenced a conversation, ad- mired the view from St. Paul’s, related several anecdotes of architect, Sir Christopher Wren, and asked if ever I had been in the dome. On my replying in the negative, and finding that I had not dined, he proposed to repair to a neighboring tavern, and said, that after the repast he would accompany me to St. Paul’s; the day, he added, was magnificent for the view, and, as he was familiar with the places, he would ‘point out all the objects of interest. “ «A fter a hasty dinner we mounted to the ball, which is placed immediately under the cross, and we entered it alone, We had been there some minutes admiring the superb pano- rama before us, when the old gentleman drew from the side COMmicCdOOkS.COm