The American patriot., 1855-12-01
Dissection of a Beau's Head.
A head no Hellebore can cure.

A head no Hellebore can cure.
Hon. Ars Poet 800.
! was yesterday engaged in an assembly of
virtuosos, where one of them produced many
curious observations which he had lately made
in the anatomy Of an human body. Ano'he
Of the company communicated to us sew ,ral
wonderful discoveries, which he had also mad
on the same subject, by the help of very n,
glasses. This gave birth to great variety of
uncommon remarks and furnished discourse
for the remaining part of the day.
The different opinions which were started
on this occasion presented to my imagination
so many new ideas, that by mixing with those
which were already there, they employed my
fancy all the last night, and composed very
wild extravagant dream.
| was invited, methought, to the dissection
Of beau's head and ola coquett's heart whi.h,
were both Of them laid on table before us.
An imaginary operator opened the first with
great deal Of nicely, which, upon cursory
and superficial view, appeared like the head Of
another man; but upon applying our glasses
to it, we made very odd dis covery, namely,
that what we looked upon as brains, were not
such in reality, but an heap of strange mate
rials wound up in that shape and texture, and
packed together with wonderful art in the sew
eral cavities of the skull. For, as Homer tells
us, that the blood of the gods is not real blood
but only something like it; SO we found that
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something like it.
The pineal gland, which many of our mod
ern philosophers suppose to be the seat Of the
soul, smelt very strong Of essenc. and orange
flower water, and was encompasscd with a
kind of horny substance, cut into thousand
little faces or mirrors, which were impec pti-
BILE to the naked eye; insomuch, that the soul,
if there had been any here, must have been ta-
ken up in contemplating her own beauties.
We observed large antrum or cavity in
the sinciput, that was filled with ribbons, lace
and embroidery wrought together in most
curious piece of network, the parts Of which
were likewise imperceptible to the naked eye
Another Of these antrums or cavities was stuff
ed with invisible billot-doux love.letters, prick
ed dances, and other trulnpery of the same ma
ture. In another we found kind Of powder,
which set the whole company sneezing, and
by the scent discovered itself to be right Span
ish. The several other cells we're stored with
commodities Of the same kind, of which it
would be tedious to give the reader an exact
inventory.
There was large cavity on each side Of the
head, which | must not omit. That on the
right side was filled with fictions, batteries,
falsehoods, VOWS, promises, and protestatiohs
that on the left with oaths and imprecations.
There issued out a duct from each Of these
cells, which ran into the root of the tongue,
where both joined together, and passed forward
in one common duct to the tip of it. W.
discovered several little roads or canals run
ming from the ear into the brain, and took par
ticular care to trace them out through thei
several passages. One of them extended it
self to bundle of sonnets and little musica
instruments. Others ended in several bladders
which where filed with wind or froth. Blu
the large canal entered into great cavity q