Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, LunaticsIves, George Burnham
History
Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics
Ives, George Burnham
Punishment
See Conolly’s amazing denunciation in his _Treatment of the Insane_.
Footnote 705:
A female patient was got with child by the head keeper; he was
subsequently given a piece of plate, and kept a private madhouse of
his own; see Sharpe, _Report and Min. of Ev._ p. 14.
Footnote 706:
Gray, chap. iv.; _ibid._ p. 26; Beach, p. 4.
Footnote 707:
S. W. Nicoll, _An Enquiry into the Present State and Visitation of
Asylums_, p. 10, etc. London, 1828.
Footnote 708:
Sharpe, p. 12; Gray, p. 23.
Footnote 709:
Sharpe, _Report and Min. of Ev._ pp. 277, 290, 297.
Footnote 710:
_Ibid._ p. 46.
Footnote 711:
For instance, at Bethnal Green Asylum.—Beach, p. 12.
Footnote 712:
As late as 1837.—Tuke, _Hist._ p. 81.
Footnote 713:
Sharpe, p. 46.
Footnote 714:
_Ibid._ p. 85.
Footnote 715:
_Ibid._ p. 48.
Footnote 716:
See Besant, _London in the Eighteenth Century_, where a print is given
of this prisoner in his cell at p. 375.
Footnote 717:
_Treatment of the Insane_, p. 28.
Footnote 718:
Sharpe, _Report and Min. of Ev._ p. 120.
Footnote 719:
_Ibid._ p. 59.
Footnote 720:
Tuke, _Hist._ p. 153.
Footnote 721:
Sharpe, _Report and Min. of Ev._ p. 68.
Footnote 722:
For an account of some of these, especially as used in Portugal into
later times, see G. A. Tucker, _Lunacy in Many Lands_, pp. 16, 1346,
etc. Sydney, 1887.
Footnote 723:
John Haslam, _Observations on Madness_, p. 317. London, 1809.
Footnote 724:
Besant, _London in the Eighteenth Century_, p. 377. There is also a
reproduction of Hogarth’s “Scene in Bedlam” from the “Rake’s
Progress.”
Footnote 725:
R. Gardner Hill, _A Concise History of the Non-Restraint System_, p.
139. London, 1857.
Footnote 726:
W. A. F. Browne, p. 119.
Footnote 727:
One large asylum is said to have made £400 a year from exhibiting
lunatics, but this would probably not include the keepers’ tips; see
Tuke, _Hist._ p. 73.
Footnote 728:
Conolly, p. 33. See also P. Pinel, _Traité Médico-philosophique sur
l’Aliénation Mentale_, p. 65. Paris, An IX.
J. B. Tuke, _Ency. Brit._ ninth ed. vol. xiii. p. 111.
Footnote 729:
See E. Westermarck, _Moral Ideas_, i. p. 274.
Footnote 730:
H. W. Carter, _Principal Hospitals_, p. 42. London, 1819.
Footnote 731:
P. Pinel, _Traité_, p. 64.
Footnote 732:
A. Halliday, _Lunatic Asylums_, p. 76.
Footnote 733:
M. Esquirol, _Mémoires de Charenton_, pp. 46, 48.
Footnote 734:
F. Beach, p. 11.
J. Conolly, p. 10.
R. Gardner Hill, _Concise Hist._ p. 141.
Footnote 735:
_Animadversions on the Present Government of York Asylum._ York, 1788.
It deals mainly with the question of finance.
_Edinburgh Review_, vol. xxviii. p. 433.
These produced _A Letter from a Subscriber to the York Lunatic
Asylum_. York, 1788, etc.
Footnote 736:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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