Sketches in Bedlam

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Author

Haslam, John, 1764-1844

Title

Sketches in Bedlam : or Characteristic traits of insanity, as displayed in the cases of one hundred and forty patients of both sexes, now, or recently, confined in New Bethlem. To the above are added, a succinct history of the establishment, its rules, regulations, treatment of patients

Original Publication

London: Sherwood Jones & Co, 1823.

Credits

Brian Coe, Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Subject

Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)

Category

Text

eBook-No.

79350

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79350

Release Date

August 12, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.SKETCHES IN BEDLAM;
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.PREFACE.
7. 7.INTRODUCTION. — THE BUILDING. — REGULATIONS. — THE NIGHT WATCH. — CLEANLINESS. — TREATMENT OF PATIENTS. — THE LAUNDRY — DIET. — THE VISITATION OF PATIENTS. — DIVINE SERVICE. — MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERSONS APPLYING FOR THE ADMISSION OF PATIENTS INTO BETHLEM HOSPITAL.
9. 9.SKETCHES IN BEDLAM. — PATRICK WALSH, — THOMAS ENGLISH, — JAMES HATFIELD, — BANNISTER TRUELOCK, — THOMAS LLOYD, — CHARLES P. TRAILE, — JOB HOLLINGE, — CHARLES GOLDNEY, — WILLIAM KENDAL. — WILLIAM KILLINER — JOHN HORDER, — NOAH PAGE, — ANDREW HARVEY, — HUGH THIER, — GEORGE CONNOR, — GEORGE WATSON, — THOMAS FISHER, — AARON BYWATER, — JOHN ZORN, — JAMES M’INTIRE, — ANDREW M’KENNOT, — JOHN ROBERTS, — JOHN WILLIAMS, — RICHARD WRIGHT, — JOHN BUTLAND, — ANTHONY ABEL, — WILLIAM PINNOCK, — JONATHAN MORLEY, — GEORGE BARNETT, — WILLIAM HOLWOOD, — GIDEON HANSON, — DAVID DAVIS, — WILLIAM GAMMAGE, — FRANCIS WILKES, — JOHN WILLIAMS, — JOSEPH PANTER, — PHILIP PACE, — THOMAS JONES, — JOHN PALING, — RICHARD POCOCK, — JOHN READ, — JOSEPH COATES, — RICHARD JENKINS, — RICHARD TURNER, — DAVID LITTLE, — JOHN JONES, — ELI DAWES, — REV. FRANCIS MARDIN, — GEORGE WOODS, — JOHN POOLE, — JAMES CHEESBURGH, — JOSEPH WATERSON, — THOMAS EASTON, — THOMAS FLETCHER, — EDWARD L——Y, — ARTHUR THUROGOOD, — JOHN BAKER, — HENRY SNELLING, — GENIUS SPARALEIU, — ROBERT CARTER, — JOHN HARTLAND, — PETER UPSDALE, — HENRY JOSEPHS, — JOHN BOYETT, — THOMAS DRIVER, — CHARLES PORCHIRITZ, — STEPHEN ST—M—E, — JOHN BURROWES, — JOHN NICHOLSON, — WILLIAM DRAPER, — JAMES W—L, — PETER MAXWELL, — JOSEPH MASON, — JOHN NISBETT, — WILLIAM CHAPPLE, — EDWARD WHENNELL, — URBAN METCALF, — JOHN PHIPPARD, — JOSEPH RICHARDSON, — WILLIAM SAVAGE, — WILLIAM ADAMS, — WILLIAM COLLISON, — GEORGE TESTER, — THOMAS DOWLE, — JOSEPH REDFERN, — JOHN GILBERT, — WILLIAM PETER JONES, — HENRY TAUNTON, — WILLIAM TUCKER, — JOHN WEBB, — JAMES PARSONS, — HENRY SWINDEN, — JOHN DAVID, — THOMAS NARROWAY, — RICHARD B. E—R—G, — DAZELY HURRILL, — WILLIAM ELMORE, — JOSEPH HILLS, — STEPHEN ELLIS, — JAMES B——R, — CHRISTOPHER HELMES, — JOHN PARKER, — WILLIAM GARWOOD, — WILLIAM GRIFFIN, — JOHN WHEELER, — JOHN DICKEN, — WILLIAM ROBERTSON, — WILLIAM PINION, — WILLIAM KILLICK, — WILLIAM VALE, — FREDERICK FOSTER, — GEORGE BROWN, — JOHN WHITE, — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.FEMALES. — MARGARET NICHOLSON, — ALICE BARTLETT, — HANNAH PRIOR, — MARY BUFFIN, — CHARLOTTE DULLY, — MARY SILVEY, — HANNAH FREEMAN, — CAROLINE DE GUTH, — CHRISTIANA ROSS, — JANE COOK, — HANNAH HANCOCK, — MARY AUSTIN, — ELIZABETH BURROWES, — ANNE MOULD, — FANNY NORTON, — MARY BANKS, — JANE TAYLOR, — ANNE GIBBONS, — SUSAN MORGAN, — CHARLOTTE WISDOM, — DOROTHY MARGERUM, — ESTHER EATON, — JANE LONG, — MARY SMART, — CHARLOTTE HARDING, — PHILIPPA MAY, — ANN MUMFORD, — ELIZABETH JAMES,
11. 11.RECOMMENDATORY ATTESTATIONS, SELECTED FROM SEVERAL HUNDRED INSERTED IN THE VISITORS’ BOOK. — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.Untitled
13. 13.PROSPECTUS
14. 14.Untitled
15. 15.Transcriber’s note

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