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  • Insane woman from Darwin's Expression of the Emotions.
  • Daniel McNaughton, Insane Murderer, in Illus. Lond. News.
  • Table on page 159: List of Insane Establishments, 1845.
  • Suggestions for the Better Protection and Care of the Insane
  • Suggestions for the Better Protection and Care of the Insane
  • Frontal view of the insane asylum, Beechworth, Victoria (Australia). Process print.
  • The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints / by John Conolly.
  • The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints / by John Conolly.
  • Christ healing the insane. Etching by J. Londerseel after D. Vinckeboons.
  • Elevation of state asylum for the insane, Tuscaloose, on the linear plan.
  • Branch Insane Asylum, Napa, California. Wood engraving by F. Wyatt, 1873, after B. Sly.
  • Sierra Leone: an insane asylum, a small wooden building with a porch. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Chapters in the history of the insane in the British Isles / by Daniel Hack Tuke.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a female patient (criminal insane?) in a cell with barred windows. Photograph.
  • Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables... / [Robert Gardiner Hill].
  • Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables... / [Robert Gardiner Hill].
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Salpêtrière hospital, Paris: Philippe Pinel freeing the insane from their chains. Oil painting by T. Robert-Fleury, ca. 1876.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: male patients (criminal insane?) in bed in ward, prison bars in foreground guarded by policeman. Photograph.
  • Hospital for the Insane, Philadelphia: panoramic view from the garden. Line engraving by W.E. Tucker after W. Mason after I. Holden.
  • Monkeys dressed as jockeys riding hounds to the Charenton insane asylum. Colour lithograph by Régnier, Béttannier and Morlon after D'Orschwiller, 1860.
  • An altar to which a paralysed man and an insane man have been brought for a cure. Etching by J. Le Pautre, 16--.
  • An altar to which a paralysed man and an insane man have been brought for a cure. Etching by J. Le Pautre, 16--.
  • Hospital for the Insane, Coton-Hill, Stafford: bird's eye view. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after B. Sly after Fulljames and Waller.