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  • Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.

    • Reed, J.
    Date
    1858
    Reference
    20076i
    • Pictures
  • Schizophrenia.

    • Prior, Cliff.
    Date
    2002
    • Audio
  • Thoughts on the causation of insanity / by John P. Gray.

    • Gray, John P. (John Purdue), 1825-1886.
    Date
    1872?
    • Books
    • Online
  • An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    [ca, 1840?]
    Reference
    20044i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Traité sur les phrénopathies, ou, Doctrine nouvelle des maladies mentales, bases sur des observations pratiques et statistiques, et l'etude des causes, de la nature, des symptomes, du pronostic, du diagnostic et du traitement de ces affections / par J. Guislain.

    • Guislain, Joseph, 1797-1860.
    Date
    1835
    • Books
    • Online
  • Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.

    • Hill, James John, 1811-1882.
    Date
    [between 1800 and 1899]
    Reference
    603136i
    • Pictures
  • Manuel pratique de médecine mentale / par E. Régis ; avec une préface par M. Benjamin Ball.

    • Régis, E. (Emmanuel), 1855-1918.
    Date
    1885
    • Books
    • Online
  • Testimonials in favour of James Hunter, Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery of the University of Edinburgh [for the position of Deputy Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland].

    • University of Glasgow. Library
    Date
    [1899?]
    • Books
    • Online
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from mania. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.

    • Williamson, J., active 1890.
    Date
    [1892]
    Reference
    38624i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Mental health is ugly : a collaborative zine / edited by Queer Anxiety Babiez Distro.

    • Queer Anxiety Babiez Distro
    Date
    2015
    • Books
  • A new view of insanity : the duality of the mind proved by the structure, functions, and diseases of the brain, and by the phenomena of mental derangement, and shewn to be essential to moral responsibility. With an appendix: 1. On the influence of religion on insanity. 2. Conjectures on the nature of the mental operations. 3. On the management of lunatic asylums / by A.L. Wigan.

    • Wigan, A. L.(Arthur Ladbroke), 1785-1847.
    Date
    1844
    • Books
    • Online
  • Zweifelhafte Geisteszustände von Gericht : Gutachten erstattet und für Aerzte und Richter / bearbeitet von Carl Liman.

    • Liman, Carl, 1818-1891.
    Date
    1869
    • Books
    • Online
  • Nebuchadnezzar, gone mad, grovels like a beast of the earth; he gropes for his crown. Engraving, 16--.

    Reference
    20126i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • An inquiry concerning the indications of insanity : with suggestions of the better protection and care of the insane / by John Conolly... now reprinted by photolithography with an introduction by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine.

    • Conolly, John, 1794-1866.
    Date
    1964
    • Books
    • Online
  • The insanity of over-exertion of the brain : being the Morison lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, session 1894 / by J. Batty Tuke.

    • Tuke, J. Batty (John Batty), Sir, 1835-1913.
    Date
    [1894]
    • Books
    • Online
  • Italiens Irrenwesen aus dem laufenden Jahrzehnt / dargestellt von Joh. Bapt. Ullersperger.

    • Ullersperger, Johann Baptist, 1798-1878.
    Date
    1867
    • Books
    • Online
  • Des idées de grandeur dans le délire des persécutions / par Paul-Emile Garnier.

    • Garnier Paul Emile, 1848-1905.
    Date
    1878
    • Books
    • Online
  • Insanity, its causes, prevention, and cure : including apoplexy, epilepsy, and congestion of the brain / by Joseph Williams.

    • Williams, Joseph, 1814-1882.
    Date
    1852
    • Books
    • Online
  • On sanity : one day in two lives / Una.

    • Una
    Date
    2016
    • Books
  • Lectures on clinical psychiatry / by Emil Kraepelin ; authorized translation from the German, revised and edited by Thomas Johnstone.

    • Kraepelin, Emil, 1856-1926.
    Date
    1904
    • Books
    • Online
  • Male figure with myxedema, after treatment. Caption: 'Myxoedeme franc. Calvitie strumiprive, avant le traitement'

    • Digital Images
    • Online
  • My self-harm nightmare.

    • Bird, Harriet
    Date
    2015
    • Videos
  • The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.

    • Campion, François, approximately 1615-1681.
    Date
    [1663]
    Reference
    18171i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Statistische Untersuchungen über Geisteskrankheiten : nach den Ergebnissen der ersten fünfundzwanzig Jahre der Kreis-Irrenanstalt zu Erlangen / unter Mitwirkung von deren Hülfsärzten herausgegeben von F.W. Hagen.

    • Hagen, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1814-1888.
    Date
    1876
    • Books
    • Online
  • On softening of the brain arising from anxiety & undue mental exercise and resulting in impairment of mind / Forbes Winslow.

    • Winslow, Forbes, 1810-1874.
    Date
    1849
    • Books
    • Online
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