front cover, title page, and translator's preface of 1877 book
'Lectures on the diseases of the nervous system : delivered at La Salpêtrière'
by J. M. Charcot, translated by George Sigerson
title page of 1876 dissertation 'Du sein hystérique : étude sur le gonflement douloureux du sein chez les femmes hystériques' [The Hysterical Breast : a study in painful breast swelling in hysterical women] by Brutus Connard
A despondent man is sitting before a fireplace, his feet on the grate, elbows on knees; he is tormented by demons proffering methods of suicide, appearing as bill collectors, and as a funeral procession. Paintings on the wall depict tragic scenes.