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| 1: | Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century, A Reader, Allan ...
But Bethlem was also a spectacle, a place of entertainment. Its walls relented for the modest price of admission." (Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century, A Reader, Allan Ingram, 1998 AD, p 2) By Steve Rudd: Contact the author for comments, input or corrections. Send us your story about your experience with modern Psychiatry Click to View Go To Start: WWW.BIBLE.CA ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/patterns-of-madness-in-the-eighteenth-century-a-reader-allan-ingram-1998ad.htm | Size: 4K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | A Treatise on Madness, William Battie, 1758 AD ...William Battie (1703-76) A Treatise on Madness (1758), A: pp. 41-44, B: pp. 68-77, C: pp. 93-99. Battie's work was the most important influence on the treatment of madness in the eighteenth century before the founding of the York Retreat in 1792. He trained at Cambridge, became a governor of Bethlem Hospital in 1742, and in 1750-51 was a leading figure in the founding of St Luke's Hospital for Lunaticks, serving as its first physician until his retirement in 1764. Battie's achievement stands out clearly in his short, pointed, and controversial Treatise on Madness. He was among the first to try to dispense with the multiplication of labels for madness- melancholy, spleen, vapours, and so on-and preferred two simple categories: 'Original Madness', where there was some physical defect from birth, and which was generally incurable, and 'Consequential Madness', which followed upon some injury or external cause, and which would usually respond to treatment. This distinction, together with ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-on-madness-william-battie-1758ad.htm | Size: 130K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | Mad-Doctors & Mad-House Keepers of the 1750's Also known as "alienists", Mad Doctors were the forerunners of psychiatrists. They were quacks in the 18th century and they are still quacks today! Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Click to View Click to View "The keepers at Bedlam are idle, skulking, pilfering scoundrels, eccentric, murders, have something peculiar about them, strange in appearance, bribery is common to all, cruelty is common to all, villainy is common to all, in short every thing is common but virtue." (Urbane Metcalf 1818, John Conolly 1859) Introduction: Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage "Mad doctors" also known as "alienists", Doctors were the forerunners of psychiatrists. "Alienists" was a title they derived from standing up and testifying in open court about a persons mental health. The "keepers" of the Mad houses, known today as psychiatric nurses! The "keeper managers" are known today as psychiatric nurse managers of a ward. "Many of the asylum doctors were no more ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/mad-doctors-mad-house-keepers-alienists.htm | Size: 31K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | Bedlam: The most famous mental hospital in history. 1677 - 1815 ... The most famous mental hospital in history. 1677 - 1815 AD "I think it is a very hard case for a man to be locked up in an asylum and kept there; you may call it anything you like, but it is a prison." (Sir James Coxe, testimony before the House of Commons Select Committee on the Operations of the Lunacy Laws, 1877) Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Click to View "The rattling of Chains, the Shrieks of those severely treated by their barbarous Keepers, mingled with Curses, Oaths, and the most blasphemous Imprecations, did from one quarter of the House shock her tormented Ears while from another, Howlings like that of Dogs, Shoutings, Roarings, Prayers, Preaching, Curses, Singing, Crying, promiscuously join'd to make a Chaos of the most horrible Confusion:" (The distress'd orphan or, Love in a mad-house, a fictional play based upon bedlam, Eliza Haywood, 1726 AD, p 40-43) Introduction: The word bedlam means a state of uproar, confusion, chaos and anarchy and has its ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-bedlam-bethlem-bethlehem.htm | Size: 65K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | Historical Encyclopedia of Psychiatry. Dictionary of mental illness Archaic medical terms related to mad doctoring of the 1700's. These are terms from the 1600-1900 that were used in medical and mental health discussions Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Ab Extra from outside. Adustion the state of being adust, or excessively dry. Affidavit a written statement sworn by a deponent for a judge, from the Latin affidare, to declare on oath. Aloes a bitter purgative derived from the aloe plant. Alterative any medicine intended to produce alteration, particularly in the processes of nutrition. Anodyne any medicine intended to alleviate pain. Antiphlogistic any medicine intended to counteract inflammation. Aorta the main artery of the system, descending from the left ventricle of the heart. Apoplexy a stroke. Black hellebore Helleborus officianalis, which is drastically cathartic, was formerly regarded as a specific in mental illness. It is native to Greece and Asia Minor, but was especially associated with the town of Anticyra on the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/historical-encyclopedia-of-psychiatry-dictionary.htm | Size: 69K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | John Wesley (1703-91) Primitive Physic: or An Easy and Natural ... Wesley stated that the mind can cause the body to get sick. "From fretting for the death of her son. And what availed medicines while that fretting continued ? Why, then, do not all physicians consider how far bodily disorders are caused or influenced by the mind". Susannah Wesley wrote her son John Wesley about a case where John Monro was treating in Bedlam. She said, "the man is not Lunatick, but rather under strong convictions of sin; and hath much more need of a spiritual, than bodily physician". Most interesting, is her comment that Monro (like most of the largest mad house keepers) believed that religious devotion was actually a sign of mental illness: "he presently condemned himself and said, Lord what sin have I been guilty of, and cry'd to God for mercy, and pardon. This probably may confirm the Dr. in the opinion of his madness but to me tis a proof of his being in a right mind". Susannah rejected this and believed just the opposite and that repentance was the way to cure his ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/primitive-physic-or-an-easy-and-natural-method-of-curing-most-diseases-john-wesley-1747ad.htm | Size: 37K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | A discourse concerning trouble of mind, and the disease of melancholly ... Disease of Melancholly, In Three Parts. Written for the Use of such as are, or have been Exercised by the same. By Timothy Rogers, M.A. who was long afflicted with both (1691), A: Epistle Dedicatory, B: pp. i-iii, C: pp. xi-xii, D: pp. 1-4. Rogers' Discourse is a classic statement of melancholy in its religious framework. From his opening dedication to Lady Mary Lane, through the preface of advice `to the Relations and Friends of Melancholly People', and throughout its 31 chapters, the context and explanation for suffering is humankind's fall from paradise and consequent distance from the grace of God, an awareness that is present behind even some of the apparently less religious accounts of melancholy that follow from the eighteenth century. As a Nonconformist minister, [Timothy] Rogers (1658-1728) was clearly alert to this framework, but what makes his account and advice more than just doctrinal is the fact that they are rooted in personal experience. His ministry was in London, but ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-discourse-concerning-trouble-of-mind-and-the-disease-of-melancholly-timothy-rogers-1691ad.htm | Size: 26K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | A New System of the Spleen, Nicholas Robinson, 1729 AD What Hope, what Refuge ... the Mind was in Despair through Doubt ... Where can he rest his hopeless Hope! where seek for Mercy, when Conscience, Horror, Despair, and all the dismal Scenes of Woe, that can afflict the most obdurate Heart, fly glaringly in his Face, and sting his tortur'd Soul, with Pain and Grief unsufferable to human Nature! Hence spring those frequent Suicides, to which these harden'd Miscreants have Recourse, to rid them of a Life most loathed, wretched, and miserable to endure. So that no Scene of Horror can be more dreadful, than to view an Atheist on his Bed of Sickness, just reviving to a Sense of his being forsaken of God, and all Hopes of his Mercy." Nicholas Robinson believed that mental illness was caused by feelings of sin, hopelessness and condemnation which in turn damaged the brain nerves. In a page out of modern chemcial psychiatry, Robinson believes drugs are the cure: "But of all Medicines in the Spleen, I know none equal or fit to compare with that ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-new-system-of-the-spleen-vapours-and-hypochondriack-melancholy-nicholas-robinson-1729ad.htm | Size: 25K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | Some Observations on the Cure of Mad Persons by the Fall of Water ... Society in December 1725 but not published. Blair's manuscript however was preserved by his friend John Martyn, 1699-1768) Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Click to View The case of "Waterfall" Click to View The case of "Subterranean" Click to View Introduction: In 1725 AD, Patrick Blair, Doctor, perfected a system of torture that cured the insane that he learned of from Franciscus Helmont in 1694. Whereas Helmont lowered a bound mad man, head first into a large tank of water, Blair dropping large volumes of water on the head of a mad man seated and bound in a chair. Most important is that both Helmont and Blair viewed the cause of insanity to be spiritual choices of men rather than bodily diseases. For this reason, water torture was an effective way of convincing the mad man to stop his insane behaviour. Blair and Helmont boast that this method indeed cured the insane! Blair would blind fold people before the procedure as a way of further inducing ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/observations-cure-of-mad-persons-by-fall-of-water-patrick-blair-1725ad.htm | Size: 29K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | Mad-Doctors: William Battie: 1703-1776 AD They were quacks in the 18th century and they are still quacks today! Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Click to View Introduction: In 1758 AD, William Battie, Mad Doctor at Bedlam and then St. Lukes asylum, was caustically hostile to Christianity and religion in general, like modern chemical psychiatry today. His A Treatise on Madness, never mentions the words: soul, spirit, God, Jesus. The only time Christianity is brought into the subject is his rather stupid suggestion that the laziness religious leaders causes madness because their "nerves" were out of shape due to lack of use the same way the lazy man has weak heart. It was a clear slap against religion. He was one who actually believed that Christians were generally mentally ill. This attitude prevails today in modern psychiatry. To Battie, all mental illness had a physical cause. Battie's etiology of insanity was borrowed from Nicholas Robinson, who in 1729 AD, wrote a book where he stated bad nerves was a ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-mad-doctors-william-battie-1703-1776ad.htm | Size: 107K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | Remarks on Dr Battie's Treatise on Madness, John Monro, 1758 ... Bible preaching as actually driving people insane. Under John Monro preachers were forbidden to even enter Bedlam, since he believed ministers of churches drove the patients to further madness. In 1772, under the indirect advice of John Monro, the British Government passed a law that allowed a person to be committed to Bedlam with a single doctor's medical certificate, and suddenly for the first time, church preachers were stripped of any official role in the process. Today, this has gone so far that insurance companies forbid church preachers from even engaging in "counseling their flock", unless they get a certificate from a secular, atheistic institution. (Remarks on Dr Battie's Treatise on Madness, John Monro, 1758 AD) "Hellebore, an herb used by the ancient Greeks to cure mental disorders, was specified as being "good for mad and furious men." A preparation known as "spirit of skull" involved mixing wine with moss taken from the skull of an unburied man who had met a violent ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/remarks-on-dr-batties-treatise-on-madness-john-monro-1758ad.htm | Size: 15K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | How to commit your unwanted, naggy or rich wife to a mental hospital Wanna get rid of your disobedient, naggy or rich wife? Commit her to a Mad House against her will! Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Even if the myth that schizophrenia is a medical condition (instead of behaviour) were true, it is illegal to force medical treatment on someone against their will. A doctor who forces treatment or drugs a non-consenting person who knows they are sick will go to jail even if it saves their life. A psychiatrist who commits someone who is suicidal to an asylum and force drugs them is guilty of a double crime. Psychiatric committal is a violation of the criminal code and doctor-patient ethics. Click to View Introduction: If you want to learn how to commit your unwanted, disobedient, naggy or rich wife to a mental hospital, you have come to the right place. The first thing you need is a time machine set to the date 1725 AD! But it is going to cost you a lot of money! We also don't recommend it, since it is immoral and breaks several of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-harms-damages-society-false-imprisonment-historic-wives-committed-by-husbands-to-mental-hospitals.htm | Size: 56K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Account of the Unparalleled Case of a Citizen of London, Bookseller ... The case of Alexander Cruden who was repeatedly committed to a mental hospital for pointing out the adultery of people in high places like John the Baptist did and lost his head! Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Introduction: In 1738 AD, Alexander Cruden, who published Cruden's Concordance in 1735, was committed to Bedlam asylum. Cruden's problems began with his parents putting him into an asylum when he experienced a broken heart over love at a young age. This labeled him a mad man for life and was the primary reason for his second false committal to an asylum. Later in life, when his amorous advances were rejected by another woman, he was committed to Bedlam. This "psychiatric history" over love lost, was only one problem. Other reason he got committed, was that the mad doctors of Cruden's time, like James Monro, and his son John, viewed Christians as mentally ill, even preventing them from entering asylums for fear of making the patient even more ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/account-of-the-unparalleled-case-of-a-citizen-of-london-bookseller-to-the-late-queen-alexander-cruden-1738ad.htm | Size: 24K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | Sin was viewed as the cause (etiology) of mental illness Christian Reil suggested that the Cat Piano was the cure for insanity. It worked by seating the insane in front of the Cat Piano, as someone played, sanity would be restored. Reil suggested this clever and imaginative hyperbole, in order to drive home his point, that insanity was a spiritual problem not a bodily problem. Doctors before the 19th century, knew less than a typical thirteen year old today, who dissected a few raccoons on his back yard picnic table and experimented with his chemistry set he got for Christmas! Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Historical Survey of Mental illness etiology 1500 - 1900 Introduction: The majority view of history for the cause of insanity, has always been sin and life choices, not the body. Here is the master summary of the historical Survey of Mental illness etiology 1500 - 1900 Historically, there were three groups of etiologies for insanity: 1. Those who believed sin directly caused insanity. 2. Those who ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-causes-etiology-historic-pre-1858ad.htm | Size: 81K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | Psychiatry historic treatments vomits, bloodletting, cold baths ... Why did torture cure the insanity? Click to View see also: Humoral medicine Click to View Introduction: Insanity has always been characterized by the sins of anger, selfishness, rebellion, laziness, violence, assaults, lack of obedience and all the other things young children get spanked for by their mothers. When mother fails, its on to the judge and jailer. When all else fails, its off to the asylum, where they will finish what your mother started. Basically society provides three methods of teaching you to behave through spankings and time out: 1. your mother 2. the police 3. the asylum. 4. the church. Although this is a historic review of the past, nothing has really changed much even today in psychiatry. The modern methods are simply sanitized versions of what you will see practiced historically. These treatments were all methods of controlling, confining, punishing and forcing compliance with rules and general obedience. "We come next to mention the remedies that are proper to ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-historic-treatments-vomits-blood-letting-cold-baths-blistering-evacuation-purging.htm | Size: 112K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | The Interior Of Bethlem Hospital, Urbane Metcalf, 1818 AD English insane asylums for over 100 years. (The Interior Of Bethlem Hospital, Urbane Metcalf, 1818 AD) "In 1815 Bethlem Hospital moved premises from Moorfields, its home since 1676, to St George's Fields, Southwark. The committee of 1815 questioned employees of the hospital over the move, clearly concerned about the possibility of improved conditions once installed in the new buildings. Reservations mere expressed by James Bevan over the gloominess of many of the rooms and over the unglazed windows in the sleeping quarters. Urbane Metcalf had been a patient in the Moorfields Bethlem between 1804 and 1806 and subsequently spent from October 1817 until November 1818 in the new hospital. The Interior Of Bethlem Hospital, which he published immediately after his release, is thus not only a unique insight into the new regime after only two years, it also affords Metcalf the opportunity to make comparisons with the old Moorfields Bethlem. While the new, according to Metcalf is infinitely ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/the-interior-of-bethlem-bedlam-hospital-urbane-metcalf-1818ad.htm | Size: 28K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | The Signs and Causes of Melancholy, Richard Baxter, 1670 AD Trust in him, and taking Heaven for a satisfying Portion. This is one of the most common Causes". He then goes on to list things like: "when they are in Debt to others", "the secret Root or Cause of all this, is the worst Part of the Sin, which is too much Love to the Body and this World". He also identifies high self esteem and a lack of contentment as a cause: "not sufficiently humbled for our Sin, or else we should be thankful for the lowest State, as being much better than that which we deserved". He also identifies cognitive dissonance (bad conscience) as a trigger of insanity: "great Cause is the Guilt of some great and wilful Sin, when Conscience is convinced, and yet the Soul is not converted". His cure of insanity was to repent: "repent, to love God and your Neighbour, to live soberly, righteously and godly, to pray at all; here you must strive, and not excuse it by any Backwardness; for it is that which must needs be done, or you are lost". Although he believed typical ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/the-signs-and-causes-of-melancholy-richard-baxter-1670ad.htm | Size: 22K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | Report From The Committee On Madhouses In England, 1815 AD West Riding magistrate Godfrey Higgins. The committee was chaired by George Rose, who had campaigned for many years for more effective regulation of madhouses. Witnesses before the inquiry included not only Wakefield and Higgins but James Veitch, a naval staff surgeon; William Finch and Thomas Bakewell, who ran asylums in Salisbury and Staffordshire respectively; Samuel Tuke, who reported on the York Retreat; James Bevan, an architect; Richard Stavely, a relative of the recently deceased James Tilly Matthews; and many of the current office holders of Bethlem Hospital, among them John Haslam, the apothecary, and Thomas Monro, the physician, both of whom lost their posts as a result of the findings. The cases of Norris and Matthews were subjects of particular concern for the committee, and the death of a patient called Fowler, referred to as 'hushed up' by Urbane Metcalf in his The Interior of Bethlehem Hospital, was raised in the questioning of John Haslam. Both Monro and Haslam were ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/report-from-the-committee-on-madhouses-in-england-1815ad.htm | Size: 29K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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