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

Date

1858

Reference

20076i

Schizophrenia.

Date

2002

Thoughts on the causation of insanity / by John P. Gray.

Date

1872?

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.

Date

[ca, 1840?]

Reference

20044i

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.

Date

1835

Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.

Date

[between 1800 and 1899]

Reference

603136i

Manuel pratique de médecine mentale / par E. Régis ; avec une préface par M. Benjamin Ball.

Date

1885

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].

Date

[1899?]

A woman diagnosed as suffering from mania. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.

Date

[1892]

Reference

38624i

Mental health is ugly : a collaborative zine / edited by Queer Anxiety Babiez Distro.

Date

2015

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.

Date

1844

Zweifelhafte Geisteszustände von Gericht : Gutachten erstattet und für Aerzte und Richter / bearbeitet von Carl Liman.

Date

1869

Nebuchadnezzar, gone mad, grovels like a beast of the earth; he gropes for his crown. Engraving, 16--.

Reference

20126i

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.

Date

1964

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.

Date

[1894]

Italiens Irrenwesen aus dem laufenden Jahrzehnt / dargestellt von Joh. Bapt. Ullersperger.

Date

1867

Des idées de grandeur dans le délire des persécutions / par Paul-Emile Garnier.

Date

1878

Insanity, its causes, prevention, and cure : including apoplexy, epilepsy, and congestion of the brain / by Joseph Williams.

Date

1852

On sanity : one day in two lives / Una.

Date

2016

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

Date

1904

Male figure with myxedema, after treatment. Caption: 'Myxoedeme franc. Calvitie strumiprive, avant le traitement'

My self-harm nightmare.

Date

2015

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.

Date

[1663]

Reference

18171i

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.

Date

1876

On softening of the brain arising from anxiety & undue mental exercise and resulting in impairment of mind / Forbes Winslow.

Date

1849