Probably the diamonds were not Rizzio's gift.
{35b} Boismont was a distinguished physician and "Mad Doctor," or "Alienist".

He was also a Christian, and opposed a tendency, not uncommon in his time, as in ours, to regard all "hallucinations" as a proof of mental disease in the "hallucinated".
{39a} S.P.R., v., 324.
{39b} Ibid., 324.
{42} Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol.v., pp.
324, 325.
{43} Proceedings, S.P.R., vol.xi., p.

495.
{45a} Signed by Mr.Cooper and the Duchess of Hamilton.
{45b} See Galton, Inquiries into Human Faculty, p.

91.
{48} Proceedings, S.P.R., vol.xi., p.

522.
{50} The case was reported in the Herald (Dubuque) for 12th February, 1891.