The bastilles of England, or, the lunacy laws at work. Vol. 1.

  • Lowe, Louisa.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The bastilles of England, or, the lunacy laws at work. Vol. 1. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PAMPHLETS BY LOUISA LOWE. SOLD BY CROOKENDEN & CO. THE (WIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES SERIES. No. 1.—A Nineteenth Century Adaptation of Old Inventions to the Repression of New Thoughts and Personal Liberty. Price 6d. No. 2.—Gagging in Madhouses as Practised by Government Servants. Price 2d. No. 4.—My Outlawry. A Tale of Madhouse Life. Price 3d. No. 5.—The Lunacy Laws and Trade in Lunacy, in a Correspondence with the Earl of Shaftesbury. Price Id. MY STORY, exemplifying the injurious working of the Lunacy Laws, and the undue influence possessed by Lunacy Experts (as shewn before the Select Committee on Lunacy Law of the House of Commons in 1877.) LUNACY LAW REFORM.—An Essay in Modern Thought June, 1882. Various Fly Leaves and Tracts, illustrative of Lunacy Law Abuses.