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Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles

Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles

by Daniel Hack Tuke

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Author
Tuke, Daniel Hack, 1827-1895
Credits
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)
Language
English
LoC Class
RC: Medicine: Internal medicine
Subject
Mental illness -- Great Britain
Category
Text
eBook-No.
31185
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31185
Release Date
February 5, 2010
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Transcriber's Note: — CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE INSANE IN THE BRITISH ISLES
  3. 3.PREFACE. — Footnotes:
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.CHAPTER I. MEDICAL AND SUPERSTITIOUS TREATMENT OF THE INSANE IN THE OLDEN TIME. — Footnotes:
  6. 6.CHAPTER II. BETHLEM HOSPITAL AND ST. LUKE'S. — St. Luke's Hospital. — Footnotes:
  7. 7.CHAPTER III. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ASYLUMS—FOUNDATION OF THE YORK RETREAT. — Footnotes:
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV. COURSE OF LUNACY LEGISLATION. — Footnotes:
  9. 9.CHAPTER V. LINCOLN AND HANWELL—PROGRESS OF REFORM IN THE TREATMENT OF THE INSANE FROM 1844 TO THE PRESENT TIME. — Footnotes:
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI. OUR CRIMINAL LUNATICS—BROADMOOR. — Footnotes:
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII. OUR CHANCERY LUNATICS. — Footnotes:
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. OUR IDIOTS AND IMBECILES. — Addendum. — Footnotes:
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX. SCOTLAND. — Footnotes:
  14. 14.CHAPTER X. IRELAND. — Addendum. — Footnotes:
  15. 15.CHAPTER XI. PROGRESS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE DURING THE LAST FORTY YEARS: 1841-1881. [292] — Footnotes:
  16. 16.CONCLUSION. — Footnotes:
  17. 17.APPENDIX A. ( Page 61. ) — Views of Bethlem Hospital. — Views of St. Luke's.
  18. 18.APPENDIX B. ( Page 142. )
  19. 19.APPENDIX C. ( Page 146. ) — Asylums in Operation in 1792.
  20. 20.APPENDIX D. ( Page 173. ) — 9 Geo. IV., c. 40 (1828).
  21. 21.APPENDIX E. ( Page 188. ) — 8 and 9 Vict., c. 100 (1845).
  22. 22.APPENDIX F. ( Page 190. ) — 18 and 19 Vict., c. 105 (1855).
  23. 23.APPENDIX G. ( Page 195. ) — 25 and 26 Vict., c. 111, "The Lunacy Acts Amendment Act, 1862." — Private Patients. — Letters of Patients. — Pauper Patients. — Licensed Houses and Hospitals. — Medical Certificates. — Workhouses. — Footnotes:
  24. 24.APPENDIX H. ( Page 205. ) — Footnotes:
  25. 25.APPENDIX I. ( Page 236. )
  26. 26.APPENDIX K I . ( Page 258. ) — Footnotes:
  27. 27.APPENDIX K II . ( Page 276. )
  28. 28.APPENDIX L. ( Page 284. )
  29. 29.APPENDIX M. ( Page 298. )
  30. 30.INDEX. — A. — B. — C. — D. — E. — F. — G. — H. — I. — J. — K. — L. — M. — N. — O. — P. — Q. — R. — S. — T. — U. — V. — W. — Y. — Z.
  31. 31.Transcriber's Note, continued:

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