SKETCHES IN BEDLAM;

OR

CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS

OF

INSANITY,

AS DISPLAYED IN THE CASES OF ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY PATIENTS

_OF BOTH SEXES_,

NOW, OR RECENTLY, CONFINED IN

NEW BETHLEM,

INCLUDING

MARGARET NICHOLSON, JAMES HATFIELD, PATRICK WALSH, BANNISTER TRUELOCK, AND MANY OTHER EXTRAORDINARY MANIACS,

WHO HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED FROM OLD BETHLEM.

_To the above are added, a succinct History of the Establishment, its Rules, Regulations, Forms of Admission, Treatment of Patients, &c., &c._

“See how the noble mind is here o’erthrown.”

BY A CONSTANT OBSERVER.

LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, JONES, AND CO. PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1823.

LONDON: PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS, GREAT QUEEN STREET.

TO

THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL

THE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER,

AND

THE WORSHIPFUL

THE GOVERNORS OF BETHLEM HOSPITAL,

_Who have, by their unwearied and benevolent Exertions, contributed so much to the Mitigation of the Agonies of the “Human Mind in Ruins,” and so successfully, in many Cases, brought it back to Reason_,

THE FOLLOWING

SKETCHES

ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

_London, 30th May 1823._