Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… Image Robert Hooke, ‘The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with people walking in the foreground’, Wellcome Collection Gallery, 25642i, about 1750. … Rake's Progress series, "In The Madhouse" (c. 1732-1735). Abstract For much of the eighteenth century, conditions inside London’s premier public hospital for the insane were appalling, so much so that a major parliamentary inquiry in 1815 led … ‘ A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree ’, his account of a dance he attended at St Luke’s Hospital for the Insane in London. He describes some of the dancers : ‘ There was the brisk, vain, pippin-faced little old lady, in a fantastic cap …
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