A Misunderstood Phantasm
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
I am Shivering
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
The Human Mirage
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: The Human Mouth as a Focus of Infection, by Willoughby Dayton Miller, 1891.
Condensed for his Library
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image source: Notes on Book Binding by Charles Gerring, 1899.
Problematical Neglect
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: The Physiological Errors of Moderation by Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1855.
I Wonder About My Phantoms
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Voluntary Patients in Asylums by Stanley Haynes, 1869.
The Dream of Inevitability
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: The Inevitable by by Philip Verrill Mighels, 1902.
When My Dreams Take Me
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Rhymes of Camp and Hearth by Theodore J. Eckerson, 1881.
No One Cared
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: “Nature Cared For and Nature Uncared For; The Results upon the Hearts of Men. A Lecture on Ornithology,” delivered by Henry Bendelack Hewetson, 1879.
Final Rupture
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Anatomy of the Parts Concerned in Femoral Rupture by George William Callender, 1863.
I Dream’d That You Were Dead
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: “I Wept, Beloved, as I Dreamed” by Georges Hüe, 1911.
Curious Epiphanies
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Curious Epitaphs by William Andrews, 1899.
Dream States in Another’s Care
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: “Report of the Committee on the Bill Appointing Commissioners to Locate a Second State Lunatic Asylum by New York (State),” 1855.
Harmful Effects
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: The Relations of The Medical Witness with The Law and The Lawyer by Samuel Parkman, Samuel, 1852.
How to Dream
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: How to Sew by National Correspondence School of Dressmaking, 1904.
I Dreamed of the Raven
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Breeding of the Raven in Pennsylvania by by Richard C Harlow, 1911.
Breathe Through My Dream
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Image source: Keep Your Mouth Shut by Fred Smith and Swan M. Burnett, 1893.
What Must You Ask Yourself
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: What Must I Do to Get Well? And How Can I Keep So? by Elma Stuart, 1898.
Reject Not a Bad Dream
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Eat Not Thy Heart by Julien Gordon, 1897.
Imagination Alchemy
Image Source: The Laws of Contrast of Colour by Michel Eugène Chevreul, 1861.
Source: Mental Alchemy by B. Brown Williams, 1853.
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