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Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England by Andrew Scull, Jonathan Andrews

Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England

Andrew Scull, Jonathan Andrews

386 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal "Bedlam" and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715–1791) was a celebrity in his own day. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull...

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