Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… constant recruit and frequent review of our ideas, satisfactorily explains, why a number of patients lapse nearly into a state of ideotism. These have, for some years, been the silent and gloomy inhabitants of the Hospital, who have avoided … and within the wider public imagination, as a mirror, 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. Partager …
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