Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/f1iOu6 Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London By: Jonathan Andrews; Andrew Scull Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520226609, 0520226607 eText ISBN: 9780520926080, 0520926080 Edition: 1st Pages: 352 Copyright year: 2003 Format: PDF Available from $ 63.00 USD SKU 9780520926080 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). Monro's case book, comprising the doctor's jottings on patients he saw in the course of his private practice--patients drawn from a great variety of social strata--offers an extraordinary window into the subterranean world of the mad-trade in eighteenth-century London. The volume concludes with a complete edition of the case book itself, transcribed in full with editorial annotations by the authors. In the fragmented stories Monro's case book provides, Andrews and Scull find a poignant underworld of human psychological distress, some of it strange and some quite familiar. They place these cases in a real world where John Monro and othersuccessful doctors were practicing, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness.
