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| 1: | Bedlam: The most famous mental hospital in history. 1677 - 1815 ...
... William Battie worked at Bedlam for about ten years under John Monro, after which he quit and started up a competing mad house called "St. Luke's" mental hospital in England in 1751 AD. After ... of the modern profession now called psychiatry." (The Transformation Of The Mad-Doctoring Trade, Andrew Scull, 1994 AD, p 3) The modern slur of "Bedlam" was created at the "Bedlam mad house" under the direction of John Monro between 1752-1791 AD. "The almost four decades during which Monro presided as physician at the Bethlem and Bridewell Hospitals, 1752-91, constituted a momentous period in Bethlem's history. ... him notoriety of a different sort: a torrent of published criticisms from the disaffected patient that constituted one of the first examples of a persistent tradition of protest literature ... Certainly the most hopeful means towards their Recovery would be to keep them with a Clean Spare Diet, and as quiet as may be, and to let none come at them but their particular Friends, Grave ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-bedlam-bethlem-bethlehem.htm | 97%  Size: 65K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 2: | Mad-Doctors: William Battie: 1703-1776 AD Battie's quacky idea of "weakness of nerves" is seen today in quacky products like "Geritol" which are modern versions of 18th century "nerve tonics" to keep you healthy ... This explains why modern chemical psychiatry is in love with him. William Battie was trained for ten years at Bedlam under John Monro. He left and started St. Luke's mental hospital in England in 1751 AD. Bedlam and St. Luke's were the two largest mad houses in London. They correspond to ... Few could rival this sort of success (though the Monro family at Bethlem, who operated Brooke House for more than a century, may well have done even better)." But the entrepreneurially inclined could obviously make a hand-some living from speculating in this variety of human misery." (The most solitary of afflictions: madness and society in Britain 1700-1900, Andrew ... Once all treatments stopped, the patient made a full recovery! We find this very interesting because this really happened. But why? Aversion therapy! We believe that this ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-mad-doctors-william-battie-1703-1776ad.htm | 95% Size: 107K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 3: | How to commit your unwanted, naggy or rich wife to a mental hospital Psychiatric committal is a violation of the criminal code and doctor-patient ethics. Click to View Introduction: If you want to learn ... 1995) Sometimes wives were cast into the mental hospital so they could not inherit their own or their husband's family fortune! ... It was very typical of the time and the depiction of the mad house is typical of what continued at real mad houses like Bedlam. "The Distress'd Orphan focuses on a young woman whose wicked ... in this Barbarity, by saying that there was a necessity to keep them in awe ; as if Chains, and Nakedness, and the small Portion ... some feeble and flickering interest in parliament, and both Monro and Battie found themselves called upon to testify in the brief ... (Undertaker of the mind: John Monro, Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull, 2001 AD, p 155) "Battie and John Monro, the two most ... Parry-Jones, 1972 AD, p 255) "Have you visited Bethlem? I have, frequently; I first visited Bethlem on the 25th of April 1814. What ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-harms-damages-society-false-imprisonment-historic-wives-committed-by-husbands-to-mental-hospitals.htm | 93% Size: 56K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 4: | Church ministers were the first Psychiatrists!: The history of ... The minister would ride his horse over to the house of the insane and provide counsel (talking cures) without ever removing the person ... Keep in mind that the now debunked Freudian psychoanalysis was opposed to chemical psychiatry and sided with the talking cures that church ... Before about 1650, there was no such thing as a mental hospital, insane asylum (except Bedlam), or even private mad houses. At this time, the insane were not removed from their homes and placed ... who was found lunatic by inquisition in 1630 and later cared for, privately, by Dr Helkiah Crooke, physician to Bethlem Hospital.' ... In 1330 AD it became a general hospital, and admitted its first mental patient in 1357 AD. This was quite exceptional and out of the ... Mad-Doctoring Trade, Andrew Scull, 1994 AD, p 6) Up until 1751, Bedlam was the only public asylum among thousands of privately owned mad houses run by church ministers and for profit businessmen. The three generation Monro dynasty at Bedlam lasted ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-church-ministers-first-psychiatrists.htm | 92% Size: 86K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 5: | Psychiatry historic treatments vomits, bloodletting, cold baths ... ... A mad individual was much easier to recognise once he or she had been treated for a while-the image of Cruden with his ... Therapeutics at Bethlem was characterized by relatively uniform purges, vomits, and bleeding, administered seasonally to ... (Undertaker of the mind: John Monro, Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull, 2001 AD, p 28) "The blood of maniacs is sometimes so lavishly spilled, and with so little discernment, as to render it doubtful whether the patient or his physician has the best claim ... But keep Company with the more cheerful Sort of the Godly. There is no Mirth [gladness] like the Mirth of Believers, which ... wheel as a form of restraint, control and exercise for up to 36 hours, often to the amusement of the mad house keepers. ... Pargeter criticized the torture and drugs that was taking place at the other mad houses like Bedlam. He gives this example: ... All modern treatments must be voluntary. Forced confinement in a mental hospital must be abolished. If someone disturbs the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-historic-treatments-vomits-blood-letting-cold-baths-blistering-evacuation-purging.htm | 91% Size: 112K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 6: | Historical overview of Psychiatry: 1550 BC - 2010 AD ... It is never given a biologic cause and the insane are not dragged off against their will to a mad house, because that was not the ... for a doctor to cure his wife of her insanity: MACBETH: "How does your patient, doctor?" Doctor: "Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick coming fancies, That keep her from her rest." MACBETH: "Cure her of that. ... psychiatrist would claim only he can treat her, lock her up in a mental hospital and treat her even it if was against her will. ... Willis is one of the earliest doctors connected with Bedlam, to recommend torture as a cure for insanity. Willis saw the main ... causes of melancholy, Richard Baxter, 1716 AD) In 1718 AD, Andrew Snape is the first preacher to diverge from the widely held ... Robinson, doctor and governor of Bedlam the same time James Monro, believed insanity was caused by life choices, sin and ... in May 1814 by Edward Wakefield, MP, and a party of gentlemen in 'one of the cells on the lower gallery' in Bethlem Hospital. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-overview.htm | 91% Size: 332K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 7: | Mad-Doctors & Mad-House Keepers of the 1750's Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Click to View Click to View "The keepers at Bedlam are idle, skulking, pilfering ... This statement is in keeping with what Mitford (1825 ?) claimed to be the rule at Warburton's house, namely: 'If a man comes in here mad, ... In order to carve out their own territory, one of the first things they did was keep preachers of local churches out of every aspect of the ... expertise rather than material goods." (The Transformation Of The Mad-Doctoring Trade, Andrew Scull, 1994 AD, p 5) "Like others engaged in this project of ... bad nerve fibers) In John Monro openly stated that no one would ever discover the cause of mental illness that he certainly had no idea. ... Besides his position at Bethlem Hospital, he was also a major figure in the emerging private "trade in lunacy" that was so notable a ... Fox's mad house near Bristol, so Battie was merely copying them. "The patient was to be removed entirely from the context wherein he or she ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/mad-doctors-mad-house-keepers-alienists.htm | 83% Size: 31K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 8: | Psychiatry calls Jesus a paranoid schizophrenic! ... She was told that "temporal-lobe epilepsy sometimes caused changes in behavior and thinking even when the patient was not having seizures. These changes ... In order to carve out their own territory, one of the first things they did was keep preachers of local churches out of every aspect of the mentally ill and ... E. Mad-doctors in 1750 AD to present viewed Christians as mentally ill: William Battie actually accused the top religious leaders of his day as highly prone ... work some Miracle for his Deliverance."" (Undertaker of the mind: John Monro, Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull, 2001 AD, p 98 "Most contemporary philosophers of the mind dabble in ... demanded proof of those who made this false charge by quoting a surgeon at Bedlam: "The surgeon to Bethlem Hospital says: " As for the opinion which some entertain, of the prevalent ... The Artificial intelligence computers that TV commentators predict will be in every house by 2030 AD, and what Hollywood movies visualize today, have failed ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-atheistic-anti-christian-jesus-mental-patient-paranoid-schizophrenic.htm | 80% Size: 68K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 9: | Account of the Unparalleled Case of a Citizen of London, Bookseller ... Click to View 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 ... 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 insane by the visit! When he got out of Bedlam, Cruden sued James ... and Jacobite sympathies.)" (Undertaker of the mind: John Monro, Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull, 2001 AD, p xv) "For James, the profession of such beliefs was itself a clear ... C. and of this Affair to his silly Landlord and Landlady, who live in Oswald's house, and are only his servants. The false notions that Crookshank and Oswald instilled into the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/account-of-the-unparalleled-case-of-a-citizen-of-london-bookseller-to-the-late-queen-alexander-cruden-1738ad.htm | 75% Size: 24K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 10: | John Wesley (1703-91) Primitive Physic: or An Easy and Natural ... 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: ... The first record of a patient with a clear mental disorder being treated with electric current applied to the head stems from John Birch, a surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital in London in November ... His journal entry for 17 September 1740 pictures a psychiatric consultation by the leading 'mad-doctor' of the day, James Monro, physician to Bethlem Hospital. After looking at the patient's tongue ... Plunge into cold water daily for twenty days, and keep as long under it as possible. This has cured, even after the hydrophobia was begun. Or, mix ashes of trefoil with hog's-lard, and anoint the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/primitive-physic-or-an-easy-and-natural-method-of-curing-most-diseases-john-wesley-1747ad.htm | 74% Size: 37K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 11: | A Treatise on Madness, William Battie, 1758 AD Click to View See also: Remarks on Dr Battie's Treatise on Madness, John Monro, 1758 AD A Treatise on Madness, William Battie, 1758 AD ... the patient, rather than restraint and other physical affronts, prefigured the `moral therapy' of the Tukes at the York Retreat later in the 18th century." (William Battie's Treatise on Madness (1758) and John Monro's Remarks on Dr Battie's Treatise (1758) - 250 years ago, Andrew ... 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 ... The patient was to be removed entirely from the context wherein he or she had become mad, including family, friends and external pressures. ... to Em-piricks, or at best to a few Idea Physicians, most of whom thought it advifeable to keep the case as well as the patients to themselves. ... the idea of flame really excited by a blow is by him referred to an house on fire, or the idea of sound excited by the pulsation of vessels, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-on-madness-william-battie-1758ad.htm | 72% Size: 130K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 12: | Introduction to the history of psychiatry ... At Lipplingen, the lazar house was soon peopled with incurables and madmen. ... Leprosy disappeared, the leper vanished, or almost, from ... Unlike the regular doctor, the early psychiatrist, called mad-doctor, treated persons who did not want to be his patients, and whose ailments ... dealt as best they could with the organic problems of the body." (Bedlam, Anthony Masters, 1977 AD, p26) "Those who remained permanently ... Efforts were made to keep these people in the community, if necessary by providing their relatives or others who were prepared to care for them with permanent pensions for their support." (The most solitary of afflictions: madness and society in Britain 1700-1900, Andrew Scull, 1993 ... The affluent patient received the best treatment, often on an individualized basis and with refined techniques; the poorer patient received ... If he lived in or near London, he might be sent to Bethlem or 'Bedlam', the only institution of any public standing which dealt with the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-introduction.htm | 70% Size: 84K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 13: | Sin was viewed as the cause (etiology) of mental illness ... are calling for their Debts, and they have it not to pay them, it's hard to keep all this from going too near their Heart, and hard to bear it with obedient ... In 1705 AD, Thomas Fallowes, doctor and mad house owner, believed insanity was caused by "black Vapours fix'd upon the Brain" "Texture of the Brain" and clogged ... Baxter notes that cognitive dissonance from unrepented sin, can lead to delusion, paranoia, depression and laziness. In 1718 AD, Andrew Snape is the first ... His quacky views are foundational to the beginning of Chemical psychiatry. 1729 AD, Nicholas Robinson, doctor and governor of Bedlam the same time James Monro, believed insanity was caused ... In 1747 AD, John Wesley, Preacher, Founder of Methodism, understood that insanity was caused by sin and noted a case of a young 20 year old man who went mad "by ... AD, William Pargeter, Doctor and Chaplain, cured the insane by "catching the eye" of the patient. This was not hypnotism, but simple good, caring bedside manner. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-causes-etiology-historic-pre-1858ad.htm | 69% Size: 81K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 14: | The Interior Of Bethlem Hospital, Urbane Metcalf, 1818 AD He was a patient before and after Parliament fired the doctors and staff at Bedlam in 1815 AD because he had reported how a keeper named Blackburn murdered a patient named Fowler: "Fowler, who one ... This is borne out by the style of his The Interior of Bethlem Hospital (about half of which is printed below). For Metcalf, there is no question that he was legitimately confined, nor any real ... Having been wholly ineffectual in his few efforts at action-asking, for example, for butter instead of cheese, or attempting to draw the attention of Dr Monro (son and successor of Thomas Monro) to the patient ... they are put again in the ticks they are still damp and of course very dangerous for any person to sleep on, though I believe that every clean patient on going into the house is allowed a new bed. ... Another patient of the name of Brown, some months back it was thought necessary to keep in a strait jacket, but afterwards he was allowed in the day time to have it off. On Tuesday's, Thursday's ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/the-interior-of-bethlem-bedlam-hospital-urbane-metcalf-1818ad.htm | 62% Size: 28K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 15: | On hallucinations: a History and Explanation, Alexandre J. F ... ... of man' - and should be a mixture of 'intimidation' and 'forceful persuasion' to make patients relinquish their mad ideas. 'Tranquillised' by physical means the patient was made amenable to 'moral' measures of which the cold douche to the head was the most effective. ... Oxenbridge [q.v.] in the seventeenth century treated a well-to-do and a poor woman according to their means; Arnold (1782) remarked that 'Chains should never be used but in the case of poor patients'; and Thomas Monro in evidence before the 1815/6 Select Committee when asked 'Would you treat a private individual patient at your own house, in the same way as has been described in respect of Bethlem ?' answered 'Certainly not'. Boismont found that ... This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp look-out in suspicious places ; and though nobody can be more skeptical than I am in such matters, yet it often ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/on-hallucinations-a-history-and-explanation-alexandre-j-f-brierre-de-boismont-1859ad.htm | 61% Size: 186K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 16: | Description Of The Retreat An Institution Near York For Insane ... ... The effect answered his expectation; and this mode of obtaining sleep, during maniacal paroxysms, has since been very frequently and successfully employed. In cases where the patient is averse to take food, porter alone has been used with ... arising from cold and confinement ? " a calamity, which," says a writer before alluded to, " frequently happens to the helpless insane, and to bed-ridden patients ; as my attendance in a large work-house, in private mad-houses, and Bethlem Hospital, can amply testify." ... Indeed, the patients are never found to require such a degree of restraint, as to prevent the use of considerable exercise, or to render it at all necessary to keep their feet wrapped in flannel. It will be proper here to observe, that the ... whether Insanity is prejudicial to animal life Drs. Monro and Crichton's opinions Of the dis- orders to which the Insane are the most liable The causes of Mortality in the Retreat Ages of Patients, 192 Tt," TABLE OF CASES. t Fr-S ;i.' ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/description-of-the-retreat-an-institution-near-york-for-insane-samuel-tuke1813ad.htm | 61% Size: 155K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 17: | Cosmic Consciousness, Richard Maurice Bucke, 1901 AD ... are established they crumble down-crushed (as it were) by their own weight-like a badly built house, the walls of which are not strong enough to sustain the roof. ... But it will pass off and please God we will work for dear Walt harder than ever. [-] Over and over again I keep saying to myself: The Christ is dead! Again we have ... Bucke 'Whitman died on 26 March 1892" (Richard Maurice Bucke, medical mystic, Artem Lozynsky, 1977 AD p 184) "Letter written to his deceased son Andrew in 1899: "... ... subject and discovered several discrepancies: For example, Bucke claims that patient J.Z. had been prevented from masturbating and had mentally improved whereas the ... by ARTEM LOZYNSKY Temple University -B u cke's not that breed: he tends the mad, in Canada- a kind of medical mystic he lets me call him with a Foreword by Gay ... In 1876, he was appointed Superintendent at the newly-opened mental hospital in Hamilton. After a year, he was transferred to the Ontario Hospital, London where he ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/cosmic-consciousness-richard-maurice-bucke-1901ad.htm | 57% Size: 413K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 18: | Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker, 2010 AD ... In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exag-gerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep ... It's good for self-esteem, control of obesity, et cetera. It has a broad-spectrum effect." Interview with Andrew McCulloch in London, September 3,2009. fn 19 In terms ... As such, it ruled in Myers v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute that a psychiatric patient could be forcibly medicated only if a court "ex-pressly finds by clear and ... Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com ... 50 percent cure rate at one asylum; other physicians announced that injections of metallic salts, horse serum, and even arsenic could restore lucidity to a mad mind. ... Ask psychiatrists at top medical schools, staff at a mental hospital, NIMH officials, leaders of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, science writers at major ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/anatomy-of-an-epidemic-robert-whitaker-2010ad1.htm | 57% Size: 982K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 19: | Textbook of Disturbances of Mental Life, Johann Christian August ... ... But even for these apparently wise persons there is no inner happiness, and they keep yearning in vain for something better. They ignore the sense of the saying "the ... The correct treatment is drastica and baths but not bleeding, as the ancients believed. Chronically melancholic, mad patients are described. Several instances of ... individuals who died at Bethlem Hospital, and especially of patients who had figured on the list of incurables on account of the long duration of their disease. ... If we were to make a detailed study of the past life of the patient, prior to the complete derangement of his psyche, we would perhaps find that the key to the ... objects has a better hope of recovery than one who stays at home or in the house of relatives during his sickness - whether this subjects him to their loving ... known to be mechanically applied, and for this reason not man with a mechanical disposition of mind should be a physician in a mental hospital (cf. this book, pt. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/textbook-of-disturbances-of-mental-life-or-the-disturbances-of-the-soul-and-their-treatment-johann-christian-august-heinroth-1818ad.htm | 56% Size: 1.2M Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 20: | Undertaker of the mind: John Monro and mad-doctoring in eighteenth ... Undertaker of the mind: John Monro and mad-doctoring in eighteenth-century England Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull 2001 AD Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Introduction: "Monro's attendance (as well as his father's) on Alexander "the Corrector" Cruden, the famous compiler of a Bible concordance that re-mains in print to this day, brought him notoriety of a different sort: a torrent of published criticisms from the disaffected patient that constituted one of the first examples of a persistent tradition of protest literature directed against the claims of mad-doctoring (and, later, psychiatry) to be engaged ... "John Monro was without question one of the most famous mad- doctors of his generation. Besides his position at Bethlem Hospital, he was also a major figure in the emerging private "trade in lunacy" 5 that was so notable a feature of eighteenth-century England's burgeoning consumer society. Monro attended Bethlem at a time when the hospital's ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/undertaker-of-the-mind-john-monro-and-mad-doctoring-jonathan-andrews-andrew-scull-2001ad.htm | 55% Size: 6K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 21: | Remarks on Dr Battie's Treatise on Madness, John Monro, 1758 ... ... 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." ... After a professional silence of 200 years, a Bethlem physician had been stung into print by a rival practitioner's slighting remarks upon his family and their methods of practice. John Monro, son of James, whom he ... rejects all general methods, I will venture to say, that the most adequate and constant cure of it is by evacuation; which can alone be determined by the constitution of the patient and the judgment of the physician. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/remarks-on-dr-batties-treatise-on-madness-john-monro-1758ad.htm | 53% Size: 15K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 22: | Observations on Maniacal Disorders, William Pargeter, 1792 AD of the patient. This was not hypnotism, but simple good, caring bedside manner. "He should be well acquainted with the pathology of the disease - should possess great acumen - a discerning and penetrating eye - much humanity and courtesy - an even disposition, and command of temper." He gives several successfully cured cases using this method that utilizes the element of surprise: "the physician's first visit should be by surprise". Pargeter criticized the torture and drugs that was taking place at the other mad houses like Bedlam. ... requested by one of the sisters of the house, to visit a poor man, an acquaintance of her's, who was disordered in his mind. I went immediately to the house, and found the neighbourhood in an uproar. The maniac was locked in a room, raving and exceedingly turbulent. I took two men with me, and learning that he had no offensive weapons, I planted them at the door, with directions to be silent, and to keep out of sight, unless I should want their assistance. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/observations-on-maniacal-disorders-william-pargeter-1792ad.htm | 52% Size: 18K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 23: | Report From The Committee On Madhouses In England, 1815 AD 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. ... Others were provincial, with Wakefield again giving high praise to Edward Long Fox's house at Bristol (extract B below). The committee's findings (a second report was published in 1816) marked a turning-point in attitudes towards treatment of ... confined many months, both winter and summer; and the only cause they assigned was, that she was troublesome; they could not keep her within; she was roving about the country, and they had had complaints lodged against her from different persons. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/report-from-the-committee-on-madhouses-in-england-1815ad.htm | 52% Size: 29K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 24: | Spital Sermon, Andrew Snape, 1718 AD Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Click to View Introduction: In 1718 AD, Andrew Snape is the first preacher to diverge from the widely held view that insanity was ... that keep the Ideas separate, and rang'd in a beautiful Order, are burst in sunder by the Force of the labouring Imagination, and the whole Magazine of Notions and Images lye jumbled together in a common Heap, and mingled in wild Confusion." Snape's view of insanity was not particularly clever or novel. It was utter quackery in hindsight. This is where the idea of the "mad scientist" or ... Of course, the Christian knows from Luke 16:21ff, that memory and computation are a function of the spirit, not the brain or the body. Snape worked at Bedlam and suggested that institutionalized care ... Bartholomew's, St Thomas', Christ's, Bridewell and Bethlem, were annually during Easter week recommended to public patronage in sermons preached by dignitaries of the Church before the governors and ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/spital-sermon-andrew-snape-1718ad.htm | 52% Size: 15K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 25: | The distress'd orphan or, Love in a mad-house, Eliza Haywood ... ... themselves in this Barbarity, by saying that there was a necessity to keep them in awe ; as if Chains, and Nakedness, and the small Portion of wretched Sustenance they suffer'd them to take, was not sufficient to humble their Fellow- Creature. ... Then in 1728, Daniel Defoe makes a public effort to bring get authorities to stop this injustice to women. (The distress'd orphan or, Love in a mad-house, Eliza Haywood, 1726 AD) "A WICKED GUARDIAN, a heroine imprisoned in a decaying, antique structure, ... As Foucault points out in Madness and Civilization, the mental hospital emerged during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a means of social control. In England the private madhouse was an especially powerful instrument for those with funds ... In the Neighbourhood of Giraldo he was inform'd of the Report of her being Lunatick, and soon after that the was remov'd from the Houfe of her Uncle, but to what Place, none knew. This Intelligence render'd the im- patient Marathon almoft in the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/the-distressd-orphan-love-in-a-mad-house-eliza-haywood-1726ad.htm | 52% Size: 20K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 26: | A New System of the Spleen, Nicholas Robinson, 1729 AD Lownesses of the Spirits are mechanically Accounted for Nicholas Robinson (doctor and governor of Bedlam) 1729 AD Click to View Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Introduction: 1729 AD, Nicholas Robinson, doctor and governor of Bedlam the same time James Monro, believed insanity was caused by life choices, sin and thinking too hard, over excitement of ... He trained in medicine at Rheims but practised and taught in London, where he was a governor of Bethlem. His adoption of a rigorously 'mechanical' view of mental illness shows the powerful influence of ... The first is that, unlike many of his contemporaries, Robinson takes madness seriously. That is, he does not explain the experiences and sufferings of the mad as delusions, products of a disordered ... MELANCHOLY Madness is a Complication of continual and unintermitting Horrors, that spares neither Body nor Mind. When this Affection is far advanc'd into the Habit, the Patient appears to all that see ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-new-system-of-the-spleen-vapours-and-hypochondriack-melancholy-nicholas-robinson-1729ad.htm | 51% Size: 25K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 27: | Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise, John Hill, 1766 AD Introduction: In 1766 AD, John Hill, a doctor, was contemporary with William Batty and John Monro of Bedlam. As such, he took the view that Hypochondriasis (depression) was induced by melancholy blood ... Typical of the anti-Christian attitudes of John Monro and the institutional psychiatry of the day at Bedlam, Hill takes a pot shot at the clergy: "Among particular persons the most inquiring and ... So essentially Hill was a quack who, apart from avoiding the drugs administered by the mad doctors of his day, he had it all wrong. (Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise, John Hill, 1766 AD) ... No disease is more troublesome, either to the Patient or Physician, than hypochondriac Disorders; and it often happens, that, thro' the Fault of both, the Cure is either unnecessarily protracted, or ... physician, and writer though he was, it was ultimately botany that was his ruling passion, as is made abundantly clear in his correspondence.13 Wherever he lived -whether in the small house in St. ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/hypochondriasis-a-practical-treatise-john-hill-1766ad.htm | 51% Size: 68K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 28: | A treatise of dreams & visions, Thomas Tryon, 1695 AD they mistake the Cause, and therefore blindly combat with the Effect" He also criticized the practice at Bedlam of allowing the general public to pay admission to mental hospitals to mock the patients and ridicule them for ... Not until Battie (1758) was a professional voice raised against this traditional approach to mental illness. Tryon was also the first who condemned the practice of exposing the insane at Bethlem Hospital to public view, forty ... or room for Judgment to censure what are sit, and what are unsit to be coyn'd into Expressions : For this cause Mad People, and innocent Children, do speak forth whatever ariseth in their Phantasies ; but on the contrary, all ... Thirdly, As long as such Disturbances are suffered, there is little Hope that any Cure or Medicine should do them good to reduce them to their Senses or right Minds, as we call it, and so the very Principle end of the House is defeated. Certainly the most hopeful means towards their Recovery would be to keep them ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-of-dreams-and-visions-thomas-tryon-1695ad.htm | 50% Size: 13K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 29: | The Myth Of Psychotherapy, Thomas Szasz, 1979 AD ... asylum."48 Ironically, many of the criticisms that Hoche leveled against psychoanalysts were well founded, but he overplayed his hand: he was not content to dispute with psychoanalysts in the free marketplace of ideas, but wanted to dispose of them by demeaning them as mad and locking them up in madhouses. ... I was only half unconscious, but I remained lying there a few moments longer than was strictly necessary, chiefly in order to avenge myself on the assailant. Then people picked me up and took me to a house nearby, where two elderly spinster aunts lived. From then on I began to have fainting spells whenever I ... From the beginning of his work at the Burghblzli, Jung's interest centered on the mental patient's personal or private experience. He soon concluded that that experience was a well-kept secret from the psychiatrist, partly because the patient wanted to keep it that way, but mainly because the mental hospital physician showed not the least interest in it. He thus discovered ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/the-myth-of-psychotherapy-thomas-szasz-1979ad.htm | 50% Size: 101K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 30: | Mental Illness Diagnosis and cures ... Governments know that if you want to get more people off welfare, make welfare less comfortable and cozy. Involuntary committal to a mental hospital must be abolished. If someone wants to commit ... If while in the half-way house, the "vegetable" assaults others or causes public disturbances, they should be charged with and sent to jail. If they assault people in jail, they should be placed in ... Living in a group home as a mental patient with a disability pension, is a much higher standard of living than most enjoyed before 100 years ago. You have a warm, dry, clean place to live, with ... Being lazy, some would resort to crime, but then they would end up in jail where they belong as criminal, not "club mad-fed". Some of them would die of starvation, kill themselves or whatever, but at ... Drugs only remove the feeling without fixing the problem and are worthless. Set your mind on heaven, not the earth: "Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-cures.htm | 49% Size: 93K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 31: | Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder is not caused from ... ... 1. "Like the psychiatrist, the psychotic too has the power to abuse language. As I already suggested, the schizophrenic patient who "hallucinates" has "delusions" is profoundly dishonest with himself. ... It is delusional to imagine that you are part of a secret astronaut program, or a covert spy as in the movie "A Beautiful Mind". It is delusional to see lights shining on your house when nobody else ... But if you walk into a mental hospital and tell the psychiatrist that you believe you are Jesus Christ, one of the two witnesses of Revelation or perhaps "Elijah who is to come", they drug you and put you in a locked room and label you as "schizophrenic". Why is one diagnosed as insane and the other not? Keep in mind that many religious leaders living today (like Ronald Weinland) claim to be ... Why is Weinland not in a mental hospital since they are full of people who claim the exact same thing? Why is the guy in the asylum viewed as mad, but Weinland and Shirley Maclaine are not? Why the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-junk-science-schizophrenia-myth.htm | 49% Size: 74K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 32: | Encyclopedia of Pentecostal History of Tongues: 150 AD - 1901 ... ... Tertullian, "Therefore, you blessed ones, for whom the grace of God is waiting, when you come up from the most sacred bath of the new birth, when you spread out your hands for the first time in your mother's house ... 35:96, in his pre-Montanist phase) Took the view that Gifts would cease prior to second coming: based upon 1 Cor 13:8-13 "Charity endures all things; tolerates all things; "of course because she is patient. ... But others imagining themselves possessed of the Holy Spirit and of a prophetic gift, were elated and not a little puffed up; and forgetting the distinction of the Lord, they challenged the mad and insidious and seducing spirit, and were cheated and deceived by him. In consequence of this, he could no longer be held in check, so as to keep silence. 9 Thus by ... active roles assigned to deacons, elders, prophets, and apostles in its ministries and polity. (See Andrew L. Drummond, Edward Iruing and His Circle (London, 1937).) The notoriety which inevitably accompanied ... ... https://www.bible.ca/tongues-history.htm | 49% Size: 295K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 33: | "Seventh-day Adventism Renounced" by D. M. Canright, 1914 Ch 8: Mrs. White and her Revelations Ch 9: The Nature of the Sabbath Commandment Ch 10: Why Christians Keep Sunday Ch 11: Did the Pope Change the Sabbath? Ch 12: Sabbatarian Positions on the History ... Hundreds of their men, women, and even young girls, are trained with printed lessons which they learn by heart, to go from house to house and give Bible readings. At first they conceal their real ... Dan 1:17. He was prime minister of a mighty empire for many years. Paul was so renowned for his learning, that the king said to him: "Much learning doth make thee mad." Acts 26:24. He did for ... God in his providence has SHUT THE DOOR; we can only stir one another up to be patient." Advent Herald, Dec. 11, 1844. Then in the Voice of Truth, Feb. 19, 1845, he says: "I have not seen a genuine ... Now law placed against law has abrogated that which is before it." Dialogue with Trypho, Chap. 11. On this Elder Andrew says: "That Justin held to the abrogation of the ten commandments is also ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/7-Seventh-day-Adventism-RENOUNCED-by-D-M-Canright.htm | 49% Size: 749K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 34: | In Darkest England and the Way Out, William Booth 1890 AD ... bear upon the Condition of the People question. But, after all, more minute, patient, intelligent observation has been devoted to the study of Earthworms, than to the evolution, or rather the degradation, of the Sunken Section of our people. ... the darling should never be cuffed about, or reminded or taunted with his heartbroken parents' crime. My poor wife has done her best at needle-work, washing, house-minding, &c., in fact, anything and everything that would bring in a shilling; but it would only keep us in semi-starvation. I have now done six weeks' travelling from morning till night, and not received one farthing for it, If that is not enough to drive you mad--wickedly mad--I don't know what is. No bright prospect anywhere; no ray of hope. ... "What!" I think I hear some say, "a million sterling! how can any man out of Bedlam dream of raising such a sum?" Stop a little! A million may be a great deal to pay for a diamond or a palace, but it is a mere trifle compared with the sums ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/in-darkest-england-and-the-way-out-william-booth-1890ad.htm | 49% Size: 738K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 35: | Mental Illness cures: (EDS-7) Etiological Diagnostic Snapsheet ... Some will demand to have their selfish will and desire obeyed in some home situation like if they should sell the house, buy new furniture, buy a new car etc. So they fabricate bizarre psychotic ... and making my own meals and doing my own laundry so I chose to live in an insane asylum, mental hospital or jail where all my personal needs, including food, clothing and shelter are provided. ... I hope they use real mashed potatoes because I hate instant! "It appears from Munthe's story, however, that the young woman preferred the social role of hysterical patient at the Salpétriere [asylum] ... while living as a "street person", with the benefit of the freedom to do whatever they want with absolutely no rules or anyone to tell they what to do or any personal commitments they must keep. ... When the child says, "no reason, I am just sad today", the mother doesn't call a psychiatrist and drug the kid with Lithium. The mother wisely rejects the "I don't know" and says, "Are you sad, or mad... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-cures-EDS-7-etiological-diagnostic-snapsheet.htm | 48% Size: 238K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 36: | The Physiognomical System of Franz Joseph Gall Johann Gaspar ... ... of mental illness discussed by Andrew Combe (1831). In principle Gall endeavoured to build psychology on neurophysiology and psychiatry on brain pathology - a conception which does not seem old fashioned at the present time which is perhaps more 'phrenological' than it realises. In practice phrenology provided the first psychological framework within which mad-doctors struggling unguided with ... All the reports relative to the wounds of the head, to the injuries of the brain, and preservation of the manifestation of the mind, are consined to the following expressions : - The patient continued ... To this end he also called together in his house common people, as coachmen and poor boys, and excited them to make him acquainted with their characters. Gall investigated particular organs according ... Excess: Excessive desire to climb or go aloft unnecessarily. Deficiency: Inability to keep one's balance; liability to stumble. 28. COLOR. -- Judgment of the different shades, hues, and tints, in ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/the-physiognomical-system-of-franz-joseph-gall-johann-gaspar-spurzheim-phrenologists-phrenology-1815ad.htm | 48% Size: 44K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 37: | Bible Only Revelation Commentary by Steven Rudd ... not mistake if he called it a sedition begotten by another sedition, and to be like a wild beast grown mad, which for want of food from abroad, fell now upon eating its own flesh." (Josephus Wars 5:4-6) Figurative ... and Israel; so we from Christ, who begat us unto God, (like Jacob, and Israel, and Judah, and Joseph, and David,) are called and are the true sons of God, and keep the commandments of Christ" (Justin Martyr, Dialogues, Chapter 123, 130 AD) e. "For all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in their hearts.' ... ... Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay." (Habakkuk 2:3) However, it may be a reference to the still future second coming. f. "Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming ... Nay, rather, "Repent therefore," he says, "or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth." (Jerome, Dialogue against the Luciferians, 24, AD 379) 10. AD 611: Andrew of ... ... https://www.bible.ca/revelation/ | 47% Size: 3.0M Depth: 7 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 38: | Casebook of Biblical Psychiatry Version 7: Real Mental Illnesses ... ... "Wednesday, 17 September 1740. A poore woman gave me an account of what, I think, ought never to be forgotten. It was four years, she said, since her son, Peter Shaw, then nineteen or twenty years old, by hearing a sermon of Mr. Wheatley's, fell into great uneasiness. She thought he was ill, and would have sent for a physician; but he said, 'No, no. Send for Mr. Wheatley'. He was sent for, and came; and, after asking her a few questions, told her, 'The boy is mad. Get a coach, and carry him to Dr. Monro [the mad doctor of famous Bedlam asylum in London, England]. Use my name. I have sent several such to him'. Accordingly, she got a coach, and went with him immediately to Dr. Monro's house. When the doctor came in, the young man rose and said, 'Sir, Mr. Wheatley has sent me to you'. The doctor asked, 'Is Mr. Wheatley your minister?' and bid him put out his tongue. Then, without asking any questions, he told his mother : 'Choose your apothecary [drug], and I will prescribe'. According to ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-casebook-of-biblical-psychiatry-real-cases-book-treatment-companion-brimstone.htm | 43% Size: 32K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 39: | Augusta Triumphans, Daniel Defoe, 1728 AD Augusta Triumphans Or, The Way To Make London The Most Flourishing City In The Universe. By suppressing pretended Madhouses, where many of the Fair Sex are unjustly confined, while their Husbands keep Mistresses, &c., and many Widows are locked up for the sake of their Jointure. Daniel Defoe 1728 AD Click to View Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Introduction: In 1728 AD, Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, believed that a husband could drive his sane wife mad by sending her to a mad house. He believed insanity was caused by life circumstance, not a disease saying, "it is much easier to create than ... VI. To save our lower Class of People from utter Ruin, and render them useful, by preventing the immoderate use of Geneva: with a frank Explosion of many other common Abuses, and nicontestible Rules for Amendment. CONCLUDING WITH An effectual Method to prevent Street Robberies. AND A Letter to Coll. Robinson, on account of the Orphans' Tax. By ANDREW ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/augusta-triumphans-daniel-defoe-1728ad.htm | 43% Size: 80K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 40: | The History of Psychiatry: 1500 BC - 2013 AD Historically, the very first psychiatrists (lit: "doctors of the soul") were church ministers until a secular takeover by chemical psychiatrists forced Christians out of their God given role as councilors of people with behaviour problems using the Bible as their guide. Click to View How did torture cure the insanity? Insanity is a behaviour choice, not a disease. Click to View Humoral Medicine Melancholy blood was believed to cause insanity. Mad Doctors blood let to cure insanity by removing the bad blood. Click to View Bedlam The most famous mental hospital in history. "A madhouse by any other name is still a jail!" "The rattling of Chains, the Shrieks, Howlings like that of Dogs, Shoutings, Roarings, Prayers, Preaching, Curses, Singing, Crying all joined to make a Chaos of the most horrible Confusion... Bedlam" Click to View Mad-Doctors & Mad-House Keepers "The keepers at Bedlam are idle, skulking, pilfering scoundrels, eccentric, had something peculiar about them, strange in ... ... https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history.htm | 43% Size: 20K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 41: | How does Torture and Coercion cure inanity? Introduction to the ... ... The rotary treatment was apparently applied more as a corrective, than a therapeutic treatment. "After having committed some irrational and spiteful act, the patient is forthwith placed on the rotating chair and revolved at adjusted speed until he becomes quiet, apologizes, and promises improvement, or until he starts to vomit." (Cox's Chair, Nicholas J. Wade, 2005 AD, p. 77) Click to View In 1758 AD, vomiting was the treatment of choice! In 1758, a mad doctor at Bedlam named John Monro induced vomiting on a daily basis to remove "phlegm" and restore "humoral balance", even though he plainly admitted he had no idea what really caused insanity! This was the science of the day. But at the same time, another mad doctor named William Battie used most of these same methods. Battie tells us that for him to reject vomits as a cure, would be considered heresy. Indeed, of all the treatments of the 1750's, vomits was viewed as the cure of choice! Battie believes that mental illness is caused by ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-history-cures-coercion-torture.htm | 43% Size: 27K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 42: | Aphorisms: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases, Herman ... Liquids of the Brain and Nerves" Boerhaave believed that it was easy to cure if you followed his instructions: "the Cure doth also occur easie enough from these Principles". The cure involved: "repeated letting of Blood and strong Purges between each Bleeding, and afterwards when you have lay'd his fury, and have brought him to his Senses, then give him Cordials and Opiates." These became standard cures at Bedlam. But he also recommended water boarding which was clearly a moral treatment since it was to be done by surprise and would strike terror into the person: "Patient unwarily into the Sea, and to keep him under Water as long as he can possibly bear without being quite stifled." Boerhaave was either a bad discector or he invented his observastions about how the brains of mad were different in appearance: "by Anatomical Inspection it has been made evident, that the Brain of those is dry, hard, friable, and yellow in its Cortex; but the Vefleis turgid, varicous and distended with ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/aphorisms-concerning-the-knowledge-and-cure-of-diseases-herman-boerhaave-1715ad.htm | 43% Size: 23K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 43: | A treatise on insanity: in which are contained the Principles ... "Pinel's liberation of the mental patient should thus be viewed as social reform rather than as innovation in medical treatment." (The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas Szasz, 1961 AD, p23) Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Introduction: In 1806 AD, Philippe Pinel, doctor for the Bicetre Asylum in France, gets our gold star of achievement of all the major mad house doctors. Pinel correctly understanding that insanity was a spiritual problem, not an organic/physical problem with the brain. Instead of drugs, he cured insanity by "moral treatments". "My faith in pharmaceutic preparations was gradually lessened, and my scepticism went at length so far, as to induce me never to have recourse to them, until moral remedies had completely failed" His views were in fact what church preachers had understood since before the 1500's. Pinel describes the treatments practiced at Bedlam as a, "depleting system of treatment to a state of extreme debility or absolute ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/a-treatise-on-insanity-philippe-pinel-1806ad.htm | 43% Size: 96K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 44: | Pathology of the Brain and Nervous Stock, Soul of Brutes, Thomas ... The first Indication, viz. Curatory, requires threatening, bonds, or strokes, as well as Physick. For the Mad-man being placed in a House for the business, must be so handled both by the Physician, and also by the Servants that are prudent, that he may be in some manner kept in, either by warnings, chiding, or punishments ... But his etiology of madness rooted in the nervous system was new. His theory that bad moral choices caused bad nerves in the brain became the dominant view in the Bedlam mental hospital in England. 100 years later, William Battie, for example, induced vomiting in the insane in order to physically shock the nerves as a cure! Today we know ... Therefore, for the healing of the Spirits, first of all it is to be procured that the Soul should be withdrawn from all troublesome and restraining passion, viz. from mad Love, Jealousy, Sorrow, Pity, Hatred, Fear, and the like, and composed to cheerfulness or joy: pleasant talk, or jesting, Singing, Music, Pictures, Dancing, ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/pathology-of-the-brain-and-nervous-stock-soul-of-brutes-thomas-willis-1667ad.htm | 42% Size: 24K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 45: | Peace of Mind and Health of Body, Lewis Southcomb, 1750 AD in either Case, the miserably afflicted are neither mad, nor out of their Senses; but only that their animal Spirits are either elated, confused, and hurried, or otherwise oppressed and dejected. Showing, That all Severity's and Confinement are prejudicial; as are all Endeavours that give Pain, or sink the Spirits ; AND THAT, In the former Case, nothing can relieve them but Divines ; and, in the latter, nothing but the judicious Physician, and Apothecaries that will be true both to Physician and Patient." Southcomb clearly rejects all the moral treatments and torture practiced in Bedlam on the residents there. He also rejected that the worst cases of insanity should have any negative stigma attached to them. ... than otherwise the Nature of the Case would have required." (The most solitary of afflictions: madness and society in Britain 1700-1900, Andrew Scull, 1993 AD, p 22) Peace of Mind and Health of Body, Lewis Southcomb, 1750 AD Cover page: LEWIS SOUTHCOMB PEACE OF MIND AND HEALTH OF ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/peace-of-mind-and-health-of-body-lewis-southcomb-1750ad.htm | 42% Size: 7K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 46: | Fat And Blood, treatment of Neurasthenia And Hysteria, S. Weir ... ... You may be fair general practitioner; in insanity, but productive neurologists of high class regarding disease of the mind organs as but a part of your work? No-1 think not. That, you cannot be if you are also in business. It is a grave injustice to insist that you shall conduct a huge boarding house- what has been called a monastery of the mad-and keep yourselves honestly able to move with the growth of medicine, and to study your cases, or add anything of value to our store of knowledge. Some of you have, in a measure. ... He got to his under-garments when the woman fled the room screaming."" (Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, Thomas Szasz, 2008 AD, p 26) "Mitchell was famous for his sometimes eccentric approach to patients with functional illnesses. He was asked to see a patient who was thought to be dying, and soon sent all the attendants and assistants from the room, emerging a little later. Asked whether she had any chance of recovery, he said "Yes she will be coming out in a few ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/fat-and-blood-treatment-of-neurasthenia-and-hysteria-s-weir-mitchell-1902ad.htm | 42% Size: 68K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 47: | Incomparable Oleum Cephalicum: The best method for the cure of ... Incomparable Oleum Cephalicum: (Sulfuric acid applied to the scalp) The best method for the cure of lunaticks Thomas Fallowes 1705 AD Click to View Click to View Click to View See also: History of Psychiatry homepage Introduction: In 1705 AD, Thomas Fallowes, doctor and mad house owner, claimed he cured insanity with ... Unlike his colleague Irish he did not pretend to write a treatise on insanity but came straight to the point in praise of his 'Incomparable Oleum Cephalicum' as 'the Best Medicine in the World, in all Kinds of Lunacy'. He sold it 'at Four Pound a Quart' over the counter for those who could not afford in-patient treatment in his house where he ... As late as 1883 at a quarterly meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association in a discussion on the therapeutic value of shock Dr (later Sir) George Henry Savage (1842-1921), physician superintendent Bethlem Hospital, consulting physician and lecturer on mental diseases Guy's Hospital, asked `whether other members of the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/incomparable-oleum-cephalicum-the-best-method-for-the-cure-of-lunaticks-thomas-fallowes-1705ad.htm | 41% Size: 14K Depth: 5 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 48: | Humoral imbalances caused insanity: Insanity treatments: Blood ... ... unadventurous approach toward the treatment of patients that he and other medical officers continued to practice there for decades. Therapeutics at Bethlem was characterized by relatively uniform purges, vomits, and bleeding, administered seasonally to patients, with the occasional addition of tonics (such as ... This was a form of "counter-irritation" involving the application of a chemical preparation to draw out a blister on the head neck, shoulder, foot, or some other exposed part of the body, normally recommended to draw the peccant fluids and humors to the body's surface." (Undertaker of the mind: John Monro, Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull, 2001 AD, p ... For the next century, the standard scientific measure-the "gold standard"-of disease was bodily lesion, objectively identifiable by anatomical, physiological, or other physico-chemical observation or measurement." (The Medicalization Of Everyday Life, Thomas Szasz, 2007 AD, p 43) Mad doctors believed that harsh treatment of ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-humoral-hippocratic-medicine-hippocrates-four-humors-450bc-1858ad-melanchol-blood-depression.htm | 41% Size: 23K Depth: 2 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 49: | Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind ... ... From that time no profane or indecent language, nor noises of any kind, were heard in her cell." It is clear that Rush, followed the practice of the day to torture the insane into submission as was currently in practice at Bedlam, for he says, "By the proper application of these mild and terrifying modes of punishment, chains will seldom, and the whip never, be required ... Charles the Sixth, of France, was deranged from a paroxysm of anger. Terror has often induced madness in persons who have escaped from fire, earthquakes and shipwreck. Two cases, from the last cause, have occurred under my notice. Where is the mad-house that does not contain patients from neglected, or disappointed love ? Fear often produced madness, Dr. Brambilla tells us, in new recruits in the Austrian army. Grief induced madness, which continued fifty years, in a certain Hannah Lewis, formerly a patient in the Pennsylvania Hospital. Distress often produced this disease, Mr. Howard tells us, in the prisoners of the ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/medical-inquiries-and-observations-upon-the-diseases-of-the-mind-benjamin-rush-1812ad.htm | 41% Size: 163K Depth: 3 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
| 50: | Casebook of Biblical Psychiatry Version 7: Real Mental Illnesses ... ... imbalance in the brain, but a spiritual choice made by the "patient". (Cases of Mental Disease, with Practical Observations, Sir Alexander Morison, 1828 AD) Blair's method cured the woman of her insanity. His two methods underscore that schizophrenia is a behaviour choice not a disease. 1. Method 1: Blair made her feel so incredibly psychically sick and nauseous through drugs that she suddenly welcomes going back to her unhappy home. 2. Method 2: Blair made her so unpleasant through water boarding, that she viewed sleeping with her hated husband as an upgrade. See also: Husbands often shipped their disobedient wives to the mad house in the 18th century. ... So there was much more to this story than a rebellious and unsubmissive wife who hated her husband and refused to sleep with him. If the man merely wanted to dispose of his wife, he would have paid to keep her locked up in the mad house like other wicked men had done. He was different in that his goal was to resume a normal ... ... ...https://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatry-mental-illness-casebook-of-biblical-psychiatry-real-cases-book-treatment-companion-waterfall.htm | 41% Size: 49K Depth: 4 Find Similar Match Info Show Parents |
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