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Histoire Litteraire des Fous; par Octave Delepierre. London: Trübner & Co., 1860.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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∗ Here is a fact which may be worth consideration by certain authorities, when they find the pillows of pauper lunatics too thin and feel moved to recommend thicker ones :—“St. Francis happening once to use a pillow on account of illness, the devil got into his pillow, and made him uneasy all night. But upon his ordering the pillow with the devil in it to be carried away, he presently recovered.”Google Scholar
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