Restoring the Lost Sense

An illustration from a 1902 edition of Vaught's Practical Character Reader.  The caption reads: "The framework of human character.  Study it."

An illustration from an 1897 issue of Harper's magazine.

An illustration from a 1902 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "They waved their wild, blistered arms around his neck."

An illustration from an 1897 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "On to a man's face and off again without hurting him."

An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "'Are you a fairy?' she asked."

An illustration from a 1902 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "He stood there, very gently swaying."

An illustration from a 1914 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "There is something that lives on here, in this room."

"No longer baby":  an illustration from an 1861 issue of Godey's magazine.

An illustration from an 1891 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "It was an imp."

An illustration from a 1902 edition of Vaught's Practical Character Reader.  The caption reads: "The Psychological Railway."  (Thanks, Gordon!)

An illustration from a 1910 issue of Hampton's magazine.  The caption reads: "The discoverer of alcohol saw things he never dreamed of."

"I had a brain tumor and I had visions. I believe the visions cause the tumor and not the reverse." —Brian O'Blivion in David Cronenberg's Videodrome.

The illustration is from an 1897 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from an 1897 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "The weight of the Earth is rather more than equal to the weight of 1,625 United Kingdoms, each one of these United Kingdoms going all the way down to the centre of the Earth."

An illustration from a 1917 issue of Scribner's magazine.

An illustration from an 1899 issue of Quartier Latin magazine.  The caption reads: "Van accepted resignedly the holes burnt in his best Persian praying rug."

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Miss Holmes made no answer, for she, too, was seeing the vision."

An illustration from an 1897 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "A shaggy artist was maltreating a sonata of Beethoven's."

An illustration from a 1917 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.

An illustration from an 1860 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Taming a groom."