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A Dictionary of Public Health (2 ed.)
...mental hospital An institution that provides care and shelter for people with mental, emotional, and personality disorders, sometimes severe enough to require custodial care. Mental hospitals have a long tradition, dating back at least to Pergamon in Asia Minor ( 350 bce ). Until the middle of the 19th century , there was almost no effective treatment for most of the inmates of such hospitals. Among their problems and challenges, an important one was the maintenance of good hygiene and sanitation. Influenced by the philosophy of deinstitutionalization ,...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
... *madness ]. However, psychological techniques, as distinct from mere speculation, were often used to dominate the patients and sometimes to comfort them. Yet, in the extensive modern literature that deals with the history of mental illness, its *madhouses , its therapies, and the absence of medical education in universities and hospitals for mind-doctors until the latter half of the nineteenth century, there is little evidence that the medical practitioners of the period, despite their best efforts, actually contributed much to genuine psychological...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...in London and in other major urban centres. At the same time the hospital movement, growing in London from the 1720s and shortly after in the provinces, reached the new industrial towns. Places like Nottingham and Hull (both 1782 ) and Sheffield ( 1797 ) acquired their first infirmary. One particular field of medicine saw striking growth: the treatment of mental disorders. Before the age of George III , very few institutions in Britain specialized in *madness . Apart from Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam) and St Luke's in London, there were hardly any *madhouses...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...paintings to embellish a newly instituted hospital for abandoned and destitute children in London. The Foundling Hospital was a realization of the *philanthropy of a private individual, Thomas Coram ( ?1668–1751 ), a retired naval captain and city merchant. From its inception, his Hospital enjoyed the support of powerful patrons and subscribers, as well as a number of creative and mutually beneficial collaborations with the era's prominent artists and musicians. Hogarth's own gifts to the Foundling Hospital, which included Moses Brought Before...
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