Punch,  40 (1861), 220.

Preparations for the Derby

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Music, Instruments, Mental Illness


    Describes the case of a person whose brains were 'completely blown away' by the sound of a French horn and who subsequently suffered from delirium and 'is at present partaking of the hospitalities of Dr. Forbes Winslow'.



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