LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Caius Julius Cæsar Frontispiece FACING PAGE Caius Julius Cæsar This contemporary portrait of Cæsar, for which in all probability he sat, is very interesting because it unmistakably exhibits the Facies Epilepticus. The original is in the Museum of Naples 40 Mohammed This is merely one of the many ideal conceptions of Mohammed 126 Lord Byron This also shows the Facies Epilepticus (the Epileptic face) that can not always be described but is so evident to the expert 190 Lady Byron Byron's wife, Anna Isabella Milbanke, the only daughter of Ralph Milbanke (afterward Noël) and mother of Ada, afterward the Countess of Lovelace, Byron's only legitimate child. After Lady Byron's separation from her husband she became the Baroness of Wentworth. She was a woman of superior talent and a nice taste in letters and with a life dedicated to good works 208 Miss Chaworth "The Heiress of Annesley," perhaps Byron's first sweetheart. Byron's uncle, whose heir he was, killed Miss Chaworth's father in a duel, one of the conditions of which was that the combatants were to be locked up together in a dark room. This uncle was afterward tried for manslaughter and found guilty, but took advantage of his position as a peer to escape the death penalty 220
