Voices of madness : four pamphlets, 1683-1796 / edited by Allan Ingram ; foreword by Roy Porter.

Date:
[1997]
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Publication/Creation

[Thrupp] : Sutton Publishing, [1997]

Physical description

xxii, 154 pages : facsimiles ; 25 cm

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

Contents

A narrative of God's gracious dealings with that choice Christian Mrs. Hannah Allen / Hannah Allen (1683) -- The London-citizen exceedingly injured / Alexander Cruden (1739) -- One more proof of the iniquitous abuse of private madhouses / Samuel Bruckshaw (1774) -- Address to humanity : containing a letter to Dr. Thomas Monro, a receipt to make a lunatic, and seize his estate, and a sketch of a true smiling hyena / William Belcher (1796).

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Includes bibliographic references and index

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    History of Medicine
    PP.D.AA6-7
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ISBN

  • 0750912103