SKETCHES IN BEDLAM;
Reading edition
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.