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services were provided for the well to do. During the 17th and 18th Centuries the provision of private services was a growth industry, as unfortunately it has again become in the latter part of the 20th Century. The private mad houses were frequently run by charlatans and were regarded with grave suspicion. This public unease became evident towards the end of the 18th Century when the treatment of King George III gave rise to public criticism. George III had his first attack of "mania" in
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The Recommendations of the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder *Read at a Meeting of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, December 8th, 1926.
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