The Trade in Lunacy

The Trade in Lunacy
Author: William Ll. Parry-Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 113503141X

First published in 2006. A private madhouse can be defined as a privately owned establishment for the reception and care of insane persons, conducted as a business proposition for the personal profit of the proprietor or proprietors. The history of such establishments in England and Wales can be traced for a period of over three and a half centuries, from the early seventeenth century up to the present day. This volume is a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

A Treatise on Madness

A Treatise on Madness
Author: William Battie
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781318504237

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