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 EXHIBITING A SINGULAR CASE OF INSANITY,

AND A NO LESS

REMARKABLE DIFFERENCE

IN

DEVELOPING

THE NATURE OF ASSAILMENT,

AND THE MANNER OF

WORKING EVENTS;

WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE TORTURES EXPERIENCED BY

BOMB-BURSTING, LOBSTER-CRACKING,

AND

LENGTHENING THE BRAIN.

EMBELLISHED WITH A CURIOUS PLATE.

“Oh! Sir, there are, in this town, Mountebanks for the mind, as well as the body.”—Foote’s Devil upon Two Sticks; Scene the last.