The Anatomy of Melancholy

History, Horoscope, and Hearsay

"All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so damned as melancholy."
-- Robert Burton
from The Anatomy of Melancholy



History, Horoscope, and Hearsay

"All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so damned as melancholy."
-- Robert Burton
from The Anatomy of Melancholy



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  • French physician Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was born May 28, 1738.  Though he did not invent the beheading device that shares his name, he proposed the device be used as a painless method of capital punishment (which he in general opposed).

    French physician Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was born May 28, 1738.  Though he did not invent the beheading device that shares his name, he proposed the device be used as a painless method of capital punishment (which he in general opposed).

    • May 28, 2011 (5:50 pm)
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