Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… the north, with people walking in the foreground’, Wellcome Collection Gallery, 25642i, about 1750. Image William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress series, "In The Madhouse" (c. 1732-1735). Abstract For much of the eighteenth century, conditions … Entertainement Insanity Punishment Satire On 17 January 1852, Charles Dickens published in Household Words an article, ‘ A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree ’, his account of a dance he attended at St Luke’s Hospital for the … now and then a warning finger to admonish her; there was the quiet young woman, almost well, and soon going out. For partners, there were the sturdy bull-necked thick-set little fellow who had tried to get away last week; the wry-faced …
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