Voices of madness
Subtitle: four pamphlets, 1683-1796
By: edited by Allan Ingram ; foreword by Roy Porter.
Contributors: Ingram, Allan.
Publisher: Sutton Pub.; Sutton Pub Ltd; Brand: Sutton Pub Ltd
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Allen, Hannah, b. 1638?; Cruden, Alexander, 1701-1770; Bruckshaw, Samuel; Belcher, Wm; Mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Mental illness -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Mentally ill -- Great Britain -- Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151) and index.
Table of contents: title: A narrative of God's gracious dealings with that choice Christian Mrs. Hannah Allen / Hannah Allen (1683); title: The London-citizen exceedingly injured / Alexander Cruden (1739); title: One more proof of the iniquitous abuse of private madhouses / Samuel Bruckshaw (1774); title: Address to humanity : containing a letter to Dr. Thomas Monro, a receipt to make a lunatic, and seize his estate, and a sketch of a true smiling hyena / William Belcher (1796).