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Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear and Japanese Print
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Last Sunday [December 23] at 11:30 p.m. one Vincent vaugogh [sic] painter, of Dutch origin, presented himself at the maison de tolerance, no. 1, asked for one Rachel [a prostitute], and gave her . . . his ear, saying "Guard this article carefully." [You will remember me, verily I tell you this] . . . the police went next morning to this person's house, and found him in bed giving no sign of life.
—Forum Républicain, Arles, France, December 30, 18881(p268)
On January 7, 1889, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) returned home to the Yellow House following his notorious ear-cutting episode. The nature of his recovery in the hospital suggested to his doctors a diagnosis of larvate (mesial temporal lobe) epilepsy with hallucinations aggravated by poor diet, alcohol and absinthe abuse, and chronic stress.2 The police initially assumed that Vincent was dead because they saw blood on towels in the lower 2 rooms of the Yellow House. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
James C. Harris, MD
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