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Observations on Insanity (1798) [ Concepts ]

… and sought solitude..." … Health … Conversation … Confinement … Text taken from John Haslam,  Observations on insanity: With practical remarks on the disease, and an account of the morbid appearances on dissection . Printed for F. … p. 20-22. Transcription by Noémie Vandenborre (UBO). 1809 edition of the  full text  from HATHITRUST. … Observations on Insanity (1798) …
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Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]

… 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 article, ‘ A Curious Dance … albeit a strange and distorted one, on what passed for a normal state of sociability. 6 . John Haslam, Observations on Insanity (London: F. And C. Rivington, 1798), p. 21-22. Share Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur … (London: Athlone Press, 1987).   In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology The London-Spy (1699) On Melancholy (1729) Observations on Insanity (1798) Household Words (1852) … For much of the eighteenth century, conditions inside London’s premier public …
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Diary on Art Gossip (1803) [ Practices / People ]

… of him. —Dr. Monro [Turner's early Patron] mentioned that Abbot the Portrait Painter died abt. 6 weeks ago in a state of Insanity. A Commission of Lunacy had been taken out and it then proved that He was not possessed of more than 3 or 400 …
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Household Words (1852) [ Practices ]

… weekly sum. The experience of this asylum did not differ, I found, from that of similar establishments, in proving that insanity is more prevalent among women than among men. Of the eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine inmates, … is necessarily far inferior to the restoration of the senses of which they are deprived. To lighten the affliction of insanity by all human means, is not to restore the greatest of the Divine gifts; and those who devote themselves to the …
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Edmund Burke [ People / Concepts ]

… himself would have baulked at being idolised by his revolutionary disciples ( Reflections , 284). What such degrees in insanity point to is another version of Burke’s somewhat clumsy articulation of two sides of the French Revolution. Most …
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