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Sketches in Bedlam — John Haslam

Sketches in Bedlam

John Haslam

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 227 pages

Sketches in Bedlam is a collection of early nineteenth-century essays by John Haslam, based on 140 patients at New Bethlem Hospital in London. It combines case sketches with an account of the asylum's history, rules, admissions and treatment. It offers historical insight into how insanity was observed and recorded in early nineteenth-century Britain.

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SKETCHES IN BEDLAM;

OR

CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS

OF

INSANITY,

AS DISPLAYED IN THE CASES OF ONE HUNDRED AND

FORTY PATIENTS

OF BOTH SEXES,

NOW, OR RECENTLY, CONFINED IN

NEW BETHLEM,

INCLUDING

MARGARET NICHOLSON, JAMES HATFIELD, PATRICK

WALSH, BANNISTER TRUELOCK, AND MANY

OTHER EXTRAORDINARY MANIACS,

WHO HAVE BEEN

TRANSFERRED FROM OLD BETHLEM.

To the above are added, a succinct History of the Establishment, its

Rules, Regulations, Forms of Admission, Treatment of Patients, &c.,

&c.

“See how the noble mind is here o’erthrown.”

BY A CONSTANT OBSERVER.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, JONES, AND CO.
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1823.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS, GREAT QUEEN STREET.
TO
THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL
THE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER,
AND
THE WORSHIPFUL
THE GOVERNORS OF BETHLEM HOSPITAL,
Who have, by their unwearied and benevolent Exertions,
contributed
so much to the Mitigation of the Agonies of the “Human
Mind in Ruins,” and so successfully, in many
Cases, brought it back to Reason,
THE FOLLOWING
SKETCHES
ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
London, 30th May 1823.

PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERSONS APPLYING FOR THE ADMISSION OF
PATIENTS INTO BETHLEM HOSPITAL.
SKETCHES IN BEDLAM.
FEMALES.
RECOMMENDATORY ATTESTATIONS, SELECTED FROM SEVERAL
HUNDRED INSERTED IN THE VISITORS’ BOOK.

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Contents

  1. SKETCHES IN BEDLAM;
  2. PREFACE.
  3. INTRODUCTION.
  4. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERSONS APPLYING FOR THE ADMISSION OF PATIENTS INTO BETHLEM HOSPITAL.
  5. SKETCHES IN BEDLAM.
  6. FEMALES.
  7. RECOMMENDATORY ATTESTATIONS, SELECTED FROM SEVERAL HUNDRED INSERTED IN THE VISITORS’ BOOK.
  8. PROSPECTUS
  9. Transcriber’s note
  10. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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