Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles

by Daniel Hack Tuke

INDEX.

A.

• Abendberg, the, [305]
• Aberdeen Asylum, [333], [334], [343]
• Abram men, [39], [40], [65]
• Accumulation of insane, [261], [362], [402], [429], [438], [493]
• Adam, Dr., [379]
• Admissions into asylums, [260]
• Aetius, [30]
• Agas's map, [60], [507]
• Agrippa, Cornelius, [36], [38]
• Ahagaltaun, [23]
• Airing-courts, [375]
• Ale, [2], [4], [5]
• Alkermes, [31]
• Allen, Dr. T., [80], [81]
• Altarnun, [11]
• America, [445]
• —— and idiots, [302]
• Amsterdam Hospital, [111]
• Amusements, [336]
• Apparition, treatment of, [4]
• Apples in insanity, [109]
• Apuleius, [2], [31]
• Argyll, Duke of, [340]
• Armagh, [403], [417]
• Armoric word for mania, [11]
• Arnold, Dr. T., [141]
• ——, Dr. (Rugby), [442]
• Ashe, Dr., [431]
• Ashley, Lord, [170], [176], [177], [178], [180], [184], [339], [449], [451]
• Asylums in 1792, [Appendix C];
  • in 1844, [pp. 209-212];
  • in 1851, [p. 225];
  • in 1858, [238];
  • in 1881, [Appendix K I]
• Attendants, [233], [244], [466]
• Aubrey, [65]
• Austria, [444]
• Auxiliary asylums (Ireland), [426]
• Ayrshire petition against lunacy reform, [327]

B.

• Backus, Dr., [302]
• Bacon's restoration of Cibber's statues, [71]
• Baillarger, [444], [497]
• Bain, Mr., [474]
• Baker, Dr., [466]
• Baldovan Idiot School, [308]
• Ball, Professor, [284]
• Ballinasloe, [403], [417]
• Balsam of bats, [33]
• —— of earthworms, [33]
• Banstead, [460]
• Barking, asylum at, [55], [68]
• Barlow, Master, [191], [293], [294], [296]
• Bastian, Dr., [473]
• Bath, school for imbeciles, [304], [307], [320]
• Baths in insanity, [6], [12], [137], [485]
• Battie, Dr., [82], [86], [87]
• Batty, Dr., [141]
• Bayle, [444]
• Bayley, Mr., [504]
• Beach, Dr., [304], [308]
• Bedford Asylum, [165], [166], [180], [214]
• "Bedlam," synonymous with mad-house, [56];
  • lines on, [75]
• —— Gate, [48], [49]
• Belfast Asylum, [417], [424]
• Belgium, [445]
• Belhomme, M., [302]
• Bell, Dr. Luther, [445], [467]
• ——, St. Fillan's, [2], [15], [16]
• Benefits arising from the removal of restrictions, [379]
• Bennet, Hon. H. G., [149]
• Bethel Hospital, [210]
• Bethlem Hospital, [12], [45], [85], [152], [166], [400], [507]
• ——, plates of, [60], [74];
  • prints of, [Appendix A]
• Bethnal Green Asylum, [155], [156], [167], [168], [174], [183]
• Bezoartick pastills, [33]
• Bicêtre, the, [302], [446]
• Bile, [33], [43], [93]
• Bill of 1773, [101]
• Binning, Lord, [149], [326], [328]
• Bishopsgate Street, [45]
• Blackburn, Mr., [355]
• Blandford, Dr., [453]
• Blood-letting, [484]
• Board of Lunacy, [453], [493], [518]
• —— of Supervision (Scotland), [348], [349], [351], [352], [354], [355]
• —— of Works (Ireland), [404]
• Boarding out of lunatics, [387]
• Boase, Dr., [13]
• Boerhaave, [18]
• Boismont, Brierre de, [145], [444]
• Bootham Asylum (York Asylum), [210]
• Borage, [30]
• Borde, Dr., [26]
• Borlase, Mr. W. C., [13]
• ——, Dr., [13]
• Bowen's Bethlem, [62]
• Bowling Green, the, [87]
• Bowssening lunatics, [11], [513]
• Boyd, Dr., [477]
• Braid, Mr. James, [472]
• Brank, the, [42]
• Braun's map, [60]
• Bread and milk in insanity, [109]
• Bridewell, [61]
• Bridle, scold's, [42]
• Brigham, Dr., [445], [500]
• Bright, Dr., [167]
• British Review, [123]
• British word for mania, [11]
• Broadmoor, [240], [252], [265], [494], [Appendix L]
• Broadway, H., his medical certificate, [163]
• Brodie, Dr., [308]
• Brogden, Mr., [326]
• Brookwood Asylum, [42], [505]
• Brosius, [448]
• Brougham, Lord, [164], [175]
• Brown, Dr. (N. Y.), [134]
• Browne, Sir T., [31], [35]
• ——, Dr. W. A. F., [335], [339], [368]
• ——, Dr. Crichton, [480], [489]
• Bruce, Mr., [355]
• Brushfield, Dr., [42], [505]
• Buckland, Mr., [49]
• Bucknill, Dr., [191], [297], [458], [477], [500]
• Burt, Mr., [279]
• Burton, [29], [30], [31]
• Butt of St. Lewes, [16]

C.

• Cairns, Lord, [433]
• Calmeil, [444]
• Campbell, Lord, [245]
• Cappe, Dr., [118]
• Carlow Asylum, [403], [417]
• Carmarthen Asylum, [250]
• Carpenter, Dr., [469]
• Cassidy, Dr., [208]
• Castlebar Asylum, [423]
• Caterham Asylum, [240], [241], [262], [308], [319]
• Cath Finntraglia, [24]
• Census of insane, 1844, [179], [211], [451];
  • 1847, [221];
  • 1854, [230];
  • 1858, [191];
  • 1859, [259];
  • 1864, [240];
  • 1874, [252];
  • 1879, [258];
  • 1881, [259], [533]
• —— (Scotch), 1818, [330];
  • 1855, [340];
  • 1858, [360];
  • 1874, [364];
  • 1881, [367], [368], [373]
• —— (Ireland), 1827, [408];
  • 1843, [414];
  • 1881, [439], [441]
• Cerebral reflex action, [469]
• Certificate, illiterate, [163]
• Chains, [8], [40], [52], [64], [95], [154], [155]
• Chamber of Horrors at Lancaster, [208]
• Chancery lunatics, [199], [222], [285], [298], [Appendix M]
• —— (Ireland), [434]
• Charcot, [474]
• Charing Cross, asylum at, [53], [68]
• Charity Commissioners' Report on Bethlem, [60], [79], [85]
• —— Organization Committee on idiots, [311], [313], [461]
• Charles I., [66]
• Charlesworth, Dr., [182], [204], [206], [527]
• [Chatham, Earl of], [98], [103-7]
• Chaucer, [10], [53], [54]
• Cheadle Lunatic Hospital, [199], [243], [458], [504]
• Cheshire Asylum, [42], [165], [214], [250]
• Chiaruggi, [445]
• Christ's Hospital, [61]
• Christmas Rose, [30]
• Chronicles of Great Britain during Middle Ages, [8]
• Church-bell, [2], [15]
• Cibber, Caius Gabriel, [70], [78]
• City and Bethlem, [58], [61], [67], [82]
• Clapton. See [Darenth]
• Clark, J. Benwell, [61]
• Clarke, Lockhart, [478]
• ——, Rev. E. M., [414]
• Classification of insanity, [467]
• Clerkenwell Close, [92]
• Cloghnagalt, [23]
• Clonmel Asylum, [394], [417]
• Clouston, Dr., [371], [488], [501]
• Cock, sacrifice of a, [20], [21]
• Code of rules (Irish) issued by Privy Council, [424]
• Coin paid to a Scotch loch, [20]
• Coke, [31], [32], [38]
• Colebrooke, Sir E., [352]
• College of Physicians, [102], [162], [170], [174], [449]
• Colney Hatch Asylum, [236], [249]
• Colquhoun, Mr., [324]
• Comfort of asylums, increased, [386]
• Commission, Lunacy Inquiry (Irish), 1877, [397]
• Commissioners in Lunacy, [187], [220], [235], [242], [246], [493]
• —— (Ireland), [403]
• [Committee] (House of Commons), 1763, [98];
  • 1808, [127];
  • 1814, 1815, [149], [157];
  • 1816, [158], [159];
  • 1827, [167];
  • 1859, [191], [Appendix G];
  • 1877, [196], [294]
• —— (Ireland), 1804, [399];
  • 1817, [394], [402];
  • 1859, [402]
• —— (Scotch), 1848, [338], [339]
• —— House of Lords (Ireland), 1830, [409], [413];
  • 1855, [417]
• Congress, International Medical, [284], [286]
• Connaught Asylum, [409]
• Conolly, Dr., [177], [180], [182], [191], [206], [207], [220], [414], [447], [448], [459], [484], [Appendix H]
• Constantinople asylums, [110]
• Construction of asylums, [236]
• Coote, Mr., [508]
• Cork Asylum, [398], [407], [415], [420]
• Cornish word for mania, [11]
• Cornwall, treatment in, [11]
• —— Asylum, [165], [166], [199], [214], [215]
• Corrigan, Dr., [418]
• Corsellis, Dr., [182]
• Cost of asylums, [166], [180], [239], [241], [262], [461]
• —— of maintenance of lunatics, [222], [244], [269], [278], [366], [Appendix I]
• —— of pauper lunatics transferred from parish to union, [239]
• Coton Hill Lunatic Hospital, [244], [504]
• Cottage treatment (Devon Asylum), [458]
• County asylums, 1844, [209], [211]
• Couper, Marable, [21]
• Course of Lunacy Legislation, [147]
• Cowan, Mr., [355]
• Cox, Dr., [142], [513]
• ——, Mr. James (afterwards Sir James Coxe), [360]
• Crace, Mr., [508]
• Crichton, Dr. (Friars Carse), [335]
• ——, Mrs., [335]
• ——, Dr., [142]
• Criminal lunatics, [265]
• Crooke, Hilkiah, [64], [80]
• Cross, sign of the, [5]
• Crosses, lunatics bound to, [28]
• Cullen, Dr., prescribes stripes, [513]
• Currie, Dr., [513]

D.

• Daire Dornmhar, [24]
• Dalyell, [16], [21]
• Dangerous lunatics (Ireland), [423], [436], [534]
• [Darenth Asylum], [241]
• —— Idiot Schools, [307], [319]
• Dark room, [29], [44]
• Darwin on idiots, [318]
• Davies, Dr. Pritchard, [486]
• Defoe, Daniel, [96]
• Dekker, [65]
• Delarive, Dr., [117], [137]
• Demoniacal possession, [1], [5], [9], [18], [27], [43]
• Demonology, [34]
• Denbigh Asylum, [253], [254]
• Denton, Robert, [55]
• Depeditch, [48], [49]
• Depletion in insanity, [136], [137], [484]
• Derby, Earl of, [269]
• "Description of the Retreat," [115], [123], [129], [400], [515]
• Desportes, [459]
• "Devil sickness," [2]
• Devon, Earl of, [306]
• Dickens on the Court of Chancery, [285]
• Dickson Thompson, Dr., [471]
• Diet in insanity, [136]
• Difficulties met with in carrying out improvements, [385]
• Dillwyn, Mr., [196], [200], [499]
• —— Committee, [196], [296], [450]
• Dioscorides, [2], [30]
• "Dissolution," [471]
• District asylums (Scotland), [358]
• Divination, [26]
• Dix, Miss, [338], [353], [445]
• "Dog and Duck," [84]
• Dorridge Grove Asylum, [306]
• Dorset Asylum, [214], [250]
• Down, Dr., [307]
• Downpatrick Asylum, [423]
• Drummond, Mr. H., [191], [332], [339], [351], [356]
• ——, Alex., trial of, [21]
• Dublin Asylum. See [Richmond]
• Ducking stools, [34]
• Dumfries Asylum, [335], [368]
• Dunbar, Sir William, [356]
• Duncan, Dr., [122], [322]
• Dundas, Mr. W., [324]
• Dundee Asylum, [333]
• Dundrum Asylum, [180], [268], [431], [435]
• Dunlop, Mr., [356]
• Dunne, Col., [417]
• Dunstan, Mr., [89]
• Durham Asylum, [250]
• Dwellings, insane in private, [262]