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Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.

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Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.