Statistical report of the Richmond lunatic asylum

The West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports

tual impairment, are rather displacements than diminutions of capacity, and that besides, perhaps, securing the survival of the fittest, such manipulations are better borne by the young of uncivilized than of civilized tribes, he shows that the greater prevalence of insanity among civilized nations is due to the greater cranial capacity as shown by Drs. Barnard Davis and Pritchard ; while it ha...

The Old Private Lunatic Asylum at Fishponds

y the mentally ill. The Bristol Borough Lunatic Asylum *n?w Glenside Hospital) was established there in 1861, ut it may not be generally known that there was a Pr'vate lunatic asylum in Fishponds as early at 1740. In 1738, on the death of his father, Dr. Joseph Mason ^ late VIII) succeeded to the management of a small Rental establishment at Wickwar. A year or two later e moved to Fishponds, an...

Degeneration in Families: Observations in a Lunatic Asylum

A proper house: Bedford Lunatic Asylum (1812–1860)

ANNE WITZ, Professions and patriarchy, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, pp. x, 233, £10.99 (paperback 0-415-07044-9). Witz's book, based on her doctoral thesis, is primarily concerned to develop feminist and sociological theories of occupational development. But she does this through an analysis of the relationship between gender and the professionalization of medicine, midwifery, nursing ...

Medico-Legal Trial.—Unlawful Detention in a Lunatic Asylum

Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Petersdorff, and Mr. Gordon Allen, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Ballantinc, and Mr. Honyman for the defendants. , Mr. Gordon Allan opened the pleadings. The first count was for assaulting and imprisoning the plaintiff in a house called Moorcroft-house, in the parish of Hillingdon, and detaining him there among lunatics a...