| Description Of Item | Journal article cutting on a strange hallucination, from the collection of Thomas Laycock. Details Soldier Pierre Valin who recently died in an asylum in Paris. Notes how Valin experienced ‘mental aberration[s]’ since the battle of Solferino where he was wounded in the head by a musket shot. Since the event, Valin thought himself dead, referring to himself as ‘it’ – ‘a machine made in [Valin’s] semblance’. |