"Rèflexiones Intéressantes sur la Folie" [Interesting Reflections on Madness] by Claude Chevalier

book review by Riley Burnham 12/31/2024

short & sweet(!), another by an excellent YT channel putting out English translation audiobooks of rare international gems

this one, husband of Sabine Stuart [author: La Cleft Du Sanctuaire Philosophique], & illustrious physician to royalty, gives us a remedy to madness: worms [could be] & brain chemical imbalance [it seems]

he points out a two-headed worm [one on its stomach] that was removed from a much afflicted patient [anger symptoms, etc.]

so all that checks out -- OF NOTE: he's firmly & deeply against bloodletting, as biblically forbidden & missing the cause [humours polluting the bloodstream, tho the blood evidently remains incorruptible]

there's some outstanding theological phrasing in here as well 👍