Insanity Collection (page 2)

Hysterical Mental / 1876
Mental patient exhibiting hysterical contraction of the arm, whilst in hospital bed Date: 1876

Snake Charmer - Tangiers, Morocco
An attentive crowd watching a rather wild-looking snake charmer. Amongst the onlookers is (interestingly) a British Naval officer smoking a pipe

Bobby Leach and his barrel - Niagara Falls
British former stuntman Bobby Leach (1858 - 1926) and his barrel, in which he survived passage over Niagara Falls, Canada, at severe detriment to his future health

Khyber Pass - Afghanistan / Pakistan - Mad Mullah
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Manisa on the Meander, Turkey - Lunatic Asylum
Inmates of Hadji-Hassans famous lunatic asylum at Manisa (Magnesia), Turkey. On the Meander River - from which the word meander comes from

Charles VI Insane
Charles VI alarms his entour- -age by bouts of insanity which though at first intermittent will eventually make him unfit to rule : the feuding ducs govern instead

Lunatic Asylum
LA SALPETRIERE Asylum founded in 1656, used especially for female patients, and later noted for the studies of hysteria by Charcot and others

Robbing the Orchard by Louis Wain
An unusual illustration by Louis Wain, more usually known for his cat drawings, showing a group of children stealing apples from an orchard

French Mental Patients
Three of Voisins patients at the Salpetriere, Paris, cured with morphine - Mme Bau.. before and after treatment; Mme Fal.. in a state; Mme Gog... before / after

Madman with Gun / 1899
A madman shoots an innocent tenant in a lodging house during an attempt to seize him

Insanity / Hysteria / 1890
Hysterical patients at La Charite, Paris, being treated with hypnotherapy

Broadmoor Asylum
Broadmoor, near Sandhurst, Berkshire

Colney Hatch
Entertainment for the patients at the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch

Larbert Asylum / Scotland
The Larbert Asylum, Scotland. The communal dining hall

London Asylum / Grant / 1838
Interior of an unnamed lunatic asylum in London: inmates draw on the walls, look up at the high windows or read distractedly

ST. LUKEs HOSPITAL / 1810
St. Lukes hospital, London: patients in the gallery

Ophelia Crazed / 1899
Ophelia crazed: dressed in a long white robe and clutching a bunch of white flowers

Patient Attacks Doctor
Mental patient attacks a doctor at the Clermont hospital in France

Asylum of St. Anne / 1871
Female patients in the grounds of Sainte-Anne asylum in Paris

Bethlehem / Workroom / 1860
The workroom, Bethlehem hospital; women sit around a large table doing their embroidery, whilst others play the piano

Bethlehem Hospital / 1860
Front view of Bethlehem hospital

Bethlehem Hospital / 1829
New Bethlehem hospital, St. Georges Fields, as rebuilt, 1815

Insanity / Delusion / Cartoo
Delusion

Insanity / Hysteria / 1881
Mental patient at La Salpetriere, going through the phase of large movements

LA Salpetriere, Paris
Inmates of La Salpetriere, one of Pariss asylums for the mentally afflicted : later in the century this will be where Charcot conducts his influential researches

Insane Patients
Mental patients in the grounds of a French asylum - almost certainly the Hopital Saint- Anne, on the outskirts of Paris

Salpetriere Photography
PHOTOGRAPHING THE PATIENT At La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, doctors working with Charcot obtain photographic documentation of hysteria patients in various states

English Madhouse / Mid C18
Scene in the courtyard of an English mad-house

Patient in Strait Jacket
Patient at Charenton in straigh jacket

Bethlehem Hospital / 1750
Hospital for the insane, known as Bedlam

French Mental Patients 2
Three of Voisins patients at the Salpetriere, classed by him as lypemaniaque (term not in any dictionary !) The lower pictures show Mme Ball... before & after treatment

Hysterical Patient
A woman in a state of frenzied hysteria is restrained by six attendants. This type of behaviour was termed the Great Movements ( Grande mouvements ) in the 1800s

Joseph Xavier Tissot
JOSEPH XAVIER TISSOT known as Frere Hilarion, French churchman and physician, founded homes for insane but opposed scientific treatment of insanity

Mad Jack of Margate: a local character who added to the colour of Margate making your seaside holiday complete. Daft hat aside, we don t know what form his madness took

Dementia Praecox
A patient suffering from catatonic dementia praecox, Kraepelins term for what is today classified as schizophrenia. The patient is acting out a private delusion

Anxiety Melancholy
A patient suffering from anxiety melancholy (melancholie anxieuse) and subject to groaning

Religious Melancholy
A patient suffering from religious melancholy

Esquirol Patient - 2
One of Esquirols patients, suffering from acute mania. After his treatment Picture 2 of 2

Esquirol Patient - 1
One of Esquirols patients, suffering from acute mania. Before treatment Picture 1 of 2

Sainte-Anne Asylum / 1871
Sainte-Anne asylum on the outskirts of Paris - the quarter for violent and insane patients

Bedlam / Womans Gallery
The womens gallery

Broadmoor / Male Rec. Room
BROADMOOR ASYLUM - Mens Recreation Room

Medical / Insanity / Patient
The American patient James Norris in chains at Bethlehem Hospital, London

St Paul tells Festus he is not insane
St Paul rejects the charge of insanity made against him by the Roman official Festus, as described in the Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 26

Scene at La Salpetriere in Paris
A scene at La Salpetriere, Paris, where Philippe Pinel orders the manacles removed from the mental patients

Mental patients
Women mental patients at the hospital of Sainte-Anne, Paris

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