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ENCEPHALOLOGY,

OR,

A VERY BRIEF SKETCH,

ETC.

CHAPTER I.

BIRTH AND INFANCY OF ERNST

HIRNSCHADEL.

ERNST HIRNSCHADEL was born in the Baronial Castle that crowns the little village of that name, situated in the forest of Sonnenburg in Upper Saxony, and not far from the confluence of the Warta and Oder. His father, Heinrich, was the forty-second Baron, in direct descent, of that most ancient Saxon house; his mother, Theresa Haupt, was the second daughter of a physician of

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