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Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]

… activities that made for civilization were distorted into manifestations of madness. Places > Health Mots-clés Insanity Confinement Punishment Entertainement Bedlam 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 …

John Thelwall [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]

… moved to Newgate. During the period he wrote a series of poems published the following year as Poems Written in Close Confinement in the Tower and Newgate, Under Charge of High Treason . These poems include a series of Anacreontic and …

Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… at the Exeter Change, but it was the climax of many years of mistreatment, in particular the total lack of exercise and confinement in a cage in which he could barely turn round. A regiment of soldiers were summoned to shoot him with 152 …