Customers and patrons of the mad-trade : the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London : with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book /

This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or ""customers""), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791)...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
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Main Authors: Andrews, Jonathan, 1961- (Author), Scull, Andrew, 1947- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2003.
Series:Medicine and society ; 12.
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