Hieronymus Bosch, Cutting the Stone (Extraction of the Stone of Folly)


Museo del Prado, Madrid

Date: 1488-1516
Technique: Oil on panel, 47.5 x 34.5 cm

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.

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