Household Words (1852) [ Practices ]
… were wondered and jeered at through iron bars by London loungers -- Sir Thomas Ladbroke the banker, Bonnel Thornton the wit, and half-a-dozen other gentlemen, met together to found a new asylum for the insane. Towards this object they put … given to the winds, and on its ancient site, there stood a hospital for the gratuitous treatment of the insane poor. With the benevolence which thus originated an additional madhouse, was mixed, as was usual in that age, a curious degree … other respects these physicians were grave men, of mild dispositions, and -- in their ample-flapped, ample-cuffed coats, with a certain gravity and air of state in the skirts; with their large buttons and gold-headed canes, their hair-powder …
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