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).
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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