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A mentally ill patient with mask and hand restraints. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.

Photograph described as 'Jew neuropath traveller'

List of danger signals of mental illness in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Medical Services, ca. 2000.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north. Engraving, 1775.

Photographs: "Myxoedeme fruste de l'enfance et pelade"

A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.

Vaslav Nijinsky, a ballet dancer, in a scene from Gìsèle'. Reproduction of a photograph by Roosen, 1934.

Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London, with a map of Cripplegate Ward and the armorial device of John Blachford. Engraving by B. Cole, 1755.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by B. Cole.

Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.

Schizophrenia.

Thoughts on the causation of insanity / by John P. Gray.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Traité sur les phrénopathies, ou, Doctrine nouvelle des maladies mentales, bases sur des observations pratiques et statistiques, et l'etude des causes, de la nature, des symptomes, du pronostic, du diagnostic et du traitement de ces affections  / par J. Guislain.

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Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.

Schizophrenia.

Thoughts on the causation of insanity / by John P. Gray.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Traité sur les phrénopathies, ou, Doctrine nouvelle des maladies mentales, bases sur des observations pratiques et statistiques, et l'etude des causes, de la nature, des symptomes, du pronostic, du diagnostic et du traitement de ces affections / par J. Guislain.