RIP Robin Williams - A big part of my growing up: In the year 1806, a well-dressed man in his twenties visited a doctor who was renowned throughout London for being able to treat what nowadays wed call depression, but back then was called melancholia. The patient explained that he felt overcome by a terrible sadness, that he didnt want to get up in the morning. He could not see any point in his existence. With your condition I would normally prescribe a course of my patent powders, said the doctor, but it so happens that I have recently come across something which will alleviate your condition much more quickly. You must, he continued, go to the Covent Garden theatre to see the pantomime, Harlequin and Mother Goose. This is the happiest thing I have ever seen performed on a stage, tears of laugher ran down my face. Why, sir, I can almost guarantee that watching Grimaldi the clown will cure you completely! Ah, but doctor, said the man sadly, I am Grimaldi the clown.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:36:35 +0000
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