Addlebrained addicts smoke out their brains to the tune of scorched old fiddler Nick-Otin. Fully titled ‘Old Nick-Otin Stealing “Away the Brains” of His Devotees’, a captioned cartoon in woodcut by N.N., in the London weekly Punch, Saturday, January 16 1869, page 21.
From a collection of comics and illustrations depicting the human head spiked or sucked, opened up, overflowing or downright exploding, at Yesterday’s Papers.