Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… on fact, by inmates themselves. The Spy and his companion, along with other visitors, begin to question the mad men and women: ' Prithee,’ says my companion, ‘what was the occasion of thy distemper?’ To which he answered, ‘I am under this … society beyond the madhouse would seem to have even less claim to that than the community of individually insane men and women confined within it. John Haslam, the Bethlem apothecary who was dismissed from his post over a century after Ward …
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