Hospital treating serious mental disorders

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Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales : suivi de considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés / par H. Dagonet.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth. Engraving by Eastgate.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.

Hospitals and asylums of the world : their origin, history, construction, administration, management, and legislation; with plans of the chief medical institutions accurately drawn to a uniform scale, in addition to those of all the hospitals of London in the jubilee year of Queen Victoria's reign / by Henry C. Burdett.

Earl's Court House, London: the gardens with several women, walking, skipping, playing badminton, etc. Coloured lithograph by G. E. Madeley after himself.

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

Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Southgate, Middlesex: bird's eye view with detailed floor plan and key. Wood engraving by Laing after Daukes.

St. Luke's Hospital, Moorfields (top), Bethlem Hospital (middle), and St. Paul's School (bottom), London: the facade of each. Engraving by J. Peltro.

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

Driffold Asylum, Sutton Coldfield, England: Driffold House, front view. Photograph, 1924.

Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.

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

Inside the asylum / by John Vincent ; with an introduction by Vera Brittain.

Permeable walls : historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting / edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz.

Twelfth annual report of the New York Asylum for Idiots : transmitted to the Legislature February 4th, 1863 / New York State Asylum for Idiots.

On the construction and management of hospitals for the insane : with a particular notice of the institution at Sieburg / by Maximilian Jacobi ; translated by John Kitching ; with introductory observations, &c. by Samuel Tuke.

The sixty-fourth report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1882.

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Hospitals, Psychiatric

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Images referencing Hospitals, Psychiatric

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Inside the asylum / by John Vincent ; with an introduction by Vera Brittain.

Permeable walls : historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting / edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz.

Twelfth annual report of the New York Asylum for Idiots : transmitted to the Legislature February 4th, 1863 / New York State Asylum for Idiots.

On the construction and management of hospitals for the insane : with a particular notice of the institution at Sieburg / by Maximilian Jacobi ; translated by John Kitching ; with introductory observations, &c. by Samuel Tuke.

The sixty-fourth report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1882.

Hospitals, Psychiatric

Images from the collections

Images referencing Hospitals, Psychiatric

Works from the collections

Inside the asylum / by John Vincent ; with an introduction by Vera Brittain.

Permeable walls : historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting / edited by Graham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz.

Twelfth annual report of the New York Asylum for Idiots : transmitted to the Legislature February 4th, 1863 / New York State Asylum for Idiots.

On the construction and management of hospitals for the insane : with a particular notice of the institution at Sieburg / by Maximilian Jacobi ; translated by John Kitching ; with introductory observations, &c. by Samuel Tuke.

The sixty-fourth report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1882.

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