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CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERIES A Mad People's History of Madness A Mad People's History of Madness Dale Peterson, Editor UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15260 Copyright © 1982, University of Pittsburgh Press All rights reserved Peffer and Simons, Inc., London Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: A Mad people's history of madness. (Contemporary community health series) Bibliography: p. 353 1. Mental illness-History-Biography. 2. Psychiatric hospital care-History Biography. I. Peterson, Dale. II. Series. [DNLM: 1. Mental disorders-Biog raphy. WM 40 P485mj RC464.A1M32 362.2'09 81-50430 ISBN 0-822~2 AACR2 ISBN 0-8229-5331-5 (pbk.) Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the Maurice Falk Medical Fund. To "Tom" and "Andy" Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii 1436 The Book of Margery Kempe 3 1677, 1678 The Diary of Christoph Haizmann 19 1714 The Life of the Reverend Mr. George Trosse: Written by Himself, and Published Posthumously According to His Order in 1714 26 1739 The London-Citizen Exceedingly Injured; Or, A British Inquisi tion Display'd, in an Account of the Unparallel'd Case of a Citizen of London, Bookseller to the Late Queen, Who Was in a Most Unjust and Arbitrary Manner Sent on the 23rd of March Last, 1738, by One Robert Wightman, a Mere Stranger, to a Private Madhouse, by Alexander Cruden 39 1774 One More Proof of the Iniquitous Abuse of Private Madhouses, by Samuel Bruckshaw 57 1816 Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq. 64 1818 The Interior of Bethlehem Hospital, by Urbane Metcalf 74 1838 and 1840 A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentle- man, During a State of Mental Derangement; Designed to Explain the Causes and the Nature of Insanity, and to Expose the Injudicious Conduct Pursued Towards Many Unfortunate Sufferers Under That Calamity, by John Perceval 92 1849 Five Months in the New-York State Lunatic Asylum, Anony- mous 108 1868 The Prisoner's Hidden Life, or Insane Asylums Unveiled: As Demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of
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