Brand's lunacy case : a full report of this most interesting and extraordinary investigation including copious animadversions on the principal actors in this drama : to which are added may [i.e. many] other important and highly affecting cases, together with the history of the horrors practised in private mad-houses, and the frightful power delegated to the mad-doctors of the 19th century, with the number of pauper lunatics in England : the late Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Sugden : the author's reply to Councellor [sic] Austen : extracts from Observations on insanity, comprising the symptoms & treatment of that malady / by Charles Dunne.

  • Dunne, Charles.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Brand's lunacy case : a full report of this most interesting and extraordinary investigation including copious animadversions on the principal actors in this drama : to which are added may [i.e. many] other important and highly affecting cases, together with the history of the horrors practised in private mad-houses, and the frightful power delegated to the mad-doctors of the 19th century, with the number of pauper lunatics in England : the late Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Sugden : the author's reply to Councellor [sic] Austen : extracts from Observations on insanity, comprising the symptoms & treatment of that malady / by Charles Dunne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    “Bethlemi ad portasse tollitdupla columna, JEiKova twv kvrop t^iOos euros $%€(. Hie calvum ad dextram tristi caput ore reclinat, Vix ilium ad lsevam ferrea vincla tenent, Dissimilis uror est Statuis. sed utrumque laborem, Et genium artificis laudat uterque furor.” At the gates of Bethlehem a double column rears itself, and the marble without represents the mage o f the inmates. On the right one reclines his head, bald, with a sad visage ; hi m on the left, ion chains scarcely hold. The statues exhibit different kinds of madness, but both give evidence of he labour and genius of the Sculptor. 1 RANSLATION. WRIT DE LUNATICO INOUIRENDO, In the case of JOHN BRAND, late of Sutton, in the County of Suffolk, now of Parliament-street, in the County of Mid- dlesex, ESQUIRE. Verdict—Of unsound mind, without lucid intervals; and incapable of tailing care of his person and property. Do not your juries give their verdict As if they felt the cause, not heard it !—Hudibras. COMMISSIONERS. Mr. PHILLIMORE. Mr. BLUNT. Mr. WHITMARSH. Will not fear, favour, bribe, and grudge, The same case several ways adjudge, As seamen, with the self-same gale. Will several different courses sail?—Hudibras, COUNSEL FOR THE COMMISSION. Mr. Sergeant TADDY. Mr. AUSTEN. Cannotthe learned Counsel lieie Make laws in any shape appear ?—Iludibras. Messrs. R. G. and H. BURFOOT, Solicitors. FOR Mr. BRAND. NOT A.HUM AN BEING. THE JURY. 1 W. CREIGHTON. 2 R. MCWILLIAMS. 3 J. HAYNE. 4 T. R. READ. 5 R. CARPENTER. 6 J. MANSFIELD. 7 J. JACKSON. 8 J. SIEVIER. 9 T. HODGKTNSON. 10 S. O. BACON. I 1 E. CIIURTON. 12 J. SPICER 13 J. GREEN. 14 G. BARKE. 15 M. G. DUKE. 16 G. HORN LEY. 17 W. H. WIIITLZ. 18 W. GROVES. 19 J. M. WHEELER. 20 J. NICHOLSON. 21 W. HUNT. THE SANHEDRIjVL