Les arracheurs de "pierres de tête" / par Henry Meige.

1897

pages [393]-396, 497 502 pages , . 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations

Having a 'stone in the head' was a colloquialism for being 'mentally deranged', derived from the Dutch. It gave rise to the fraudulant practice of 'extracting' such stones (15th-18th centuries), which was the subject of a number of Dutch and Flemish works of art