Stone of madness
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The stone of folly or the stone of madness refers to a hypothetical procedure in the 15th century involving trepanation and extraction of a stone, thought to be the cause of the patient's madness.[1][2] This procedure is demonstrated in the painting The Extraction of the Stone of Madness by Hieronymus Bosch.[3] The procedure and the painting depicting it inspired the 2002 short film of the same name.[4]
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Quentin Massys: An Allegory of Folly (early 16th century). The fool has a "stone of folly" in his forehead.
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Pieter Huys: A surgeon extracting the stone of folly
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Pieter Jansz. Quast,
Die Steinoperation, ca 1630
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