William Battie's Treatise on Madness (1758) and John Monro's Remarks on Dr Battie's Treatise (1758).
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William Battie, resident physician and driving force behind the foundation of St Luke’s asylum, published what was probably the first English medical monograph devoted to madness in 1758. A proponent of Enlightenment pedagogy, Battie advocated an optimistic view of the treatability of insanity, by management – rather than the ineffective and brutal purges, vomits and blood-letting then regularly practiced at Bethlem.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
دوره 192 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008