Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… where all activities that made for civilization were distorted into manifestations of madness. Places > Health Keywords Confinement Entertainement Insanity Punishment Satire On 17 January 1852, Charles Dickens published in Household Words an … women: ' Prithee,’ says my companion, ‘what was the occasion of thy distemper?’ To which he answered, ‘I am under this confinement for the noble sins of drinking and whoring, and if thou hast not a care it will bring thee into the same … Haslam, the Bethlem apothecary who was dismissed from his post over a century after Ward was writing, wrote of how long confinement can affect an inmate, particularly as far as memory is concerned: ‘ It shews how treacherous the memory is …
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