Lunacy
Subtitle: its past and its present
By: By Robert Gardiner Hill ... With Appendix ..
Contributors: Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896; Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879 former owner; Hill, Robert Gardiner, 1811-1878 former owner; St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library; King's College London
Series: Medical times and gazette
Publisher: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Mentally ill; Lincoln Lunatic Hospital; Insanity (Law); Psychiatric Hospitals; Mental illness; Asylums; Psychiatry; Care; Pathological Psychology
Other titles: Dr. Gardiner Hill on lunacy.
Notes: Cover title: "Dr. Gardiner Hill on lunacy."

An argument against the use of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane, with an account of the author's introduction of non-restraint at the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum.

"History of the non-restraint system. By B. W. Richardson ... as extracted from the 'Medical times and Gazette', Oct. 22, and Nov. 12, 1864": p. [87]-99.

Notice slip attached to title page.

With half-title page.

This material has been provided by King ́s College London. The original may be consulted at King ́s College London.

King ́s College London.