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The following are some of the statistics of the duties performed in the office of the Masters in Lunacy during the year ending October 31, 1879:--

Orders for inquiry in Commissions of Lunacy executed by Masters in Lunacy 115

Reports made to the Lord Chancellor 248

Summonses for proceedings before the Masters 5739

REGISTRAR IN LUNACY.

Petitions presented for hearing 253

Ditto for orders for inquiry, and for orders under Lunacy Regulation Act, 1862 179

Orders made for inquiry (Commissioners in Lunacy) 119

Number of orders made in pursuance of the Lunacy Regulation Act, 1862, for the application of properties of small amounts for the maintenance of lunatics 51

CASH ACCOUNTS.

Amount of receipts included in accounts and affidavits of committees and receivers of lunatics' estates, taken and passed by the Masters L882,481

Amount of disbursements and allowances thereon 766,220

Percentage on lunatics' incomes under general order 21,140

Amount of stock directed to be transferred into court 144,439

Amount of stock directed to be sold or transferred out 325,925

Amount of stock directed by orders in lunacy to be transferred, or otherwise than into court 2,092,038

Judicial Statistics, 1880.

INDEX.

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

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

Bicetre, 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

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

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

Earle, Dr. Pliny, 492

Earlswood, 305, 319

Edinburgh Review on Pinel, 142

Edinburgh Royal Asylum, 322, 323, 343, 371, 372

Edward VI., 61

Eldon, Lord, 162, 165

Electricity, 110

Elgin Asylum, 341

Ellice, Mr. E., 339, 348, 350, 352, 353, 355

Elliotson, Dr., 472

Elmes on St. Luke's, 88

Empiric, a Scotch, 21

Employment of patients, 137, 278, 333, 336, 489

Ennis Asylum, 423

Enniscorthy Asylum, 423

Epilepsy, 4, 20, 31-37, 489

Erskine, Lord, 130

Esquirol, 302, 448, 459, 467

Essex Hall, 305, 320

---- Asylum (Brentwood), 250

Evelyn's visit to Bethlem, 64, 68

"Evigilator" (Dr. Best), 124

Evolution, 471, 475

Exeter Lunatic Hospital, 214

Exorcism, 28

Fallowes, Dr., 93

Falret, 302, 444

Farm labour, 138, 334, 382

Faulkner, Dr., 142

Fellows of College (Commissioners), 102, 167

Ferrier, Dr., 473

Ferrus, 132, 133, 444

Feuchtersleben, 445

Feverfew, 30

Fife and Kinross Asylum, 388, 391, 462

Fig poultices, 31

Finnmac-Cumhail, 24

Finsbury Circus, 67, 68

Fisherton House, 268

FitzMary, Simon, 45

Fletcher, Dr. Bell, 306

Fonthill-Gifford Asylum, 156, 212

Forfar, 42

Fort Clarence Hospital, 210

Foster, Mr. J. Leslie, 394, 400

Foville, 444

----, M. Achille, 284, 446

Fowler, Dr., 119

Fownes, Sir William, 396

Fox (Lord Holland), 98

----, Mr. John, on schools for the insane, 438

France, 142, 301, 444

Fraser, Dr., 387, 462

Friedreich, 445

Friends, Society of, 113, 125, 132, 134, 306

Fritsch, 473

Fry, Mrs., 329

Furness, 28

Galen, 30

Gall, son of King of Ulster, a lunatic, 25

Galt, etymology of, 24

Gardner, Mr. J. E., 62, 74, Appendix A

Garth's Dispensary, 81

Gartnavel, 372

Gaskell, Mr., 191, 209, 214, 454, 456

Gay, 67

Gealach, etymology of, 24

Gentleman's Magazine, 99, 101

George III., insanity of, 107, 108

Georget, 444

Gerarde, 30

Germany, 304, 444

Gilchrist, Dr., 371

Giraldus of Wales, 8, 9

Glamorgan Asylum, 249, 250

Glasgow Asylum, 332, 334, 343

Glen-na-galt, 23, 25, 393

Gloucester Asylum, 165, 166, 179, 180, 214, 503

Godfrey, Bishop of Bethlehem, grant to, 47

Goltz, 473

Gordon, Mr. R., 166, 169, 171, 187, 202, 203, 332, 449

Grabham, Dr., 305, 319

Graham, Sir James, 184, 339

Grand Juries' presentments (Ireland), 404, 405

Grant, capitation, 196, 251, 364, 390

Gray, Dr. (Utica), 449, 463

Great Staughton, 41

Gregorian water, 18

Grenville, Mr., 98

Gresham, Sir J., 58, 61

Grey, Sir George, 191, 338, 351, 361

Griesinger, 448

Grove Hall Asylum, 481

Gudden, 482

Guislain, 445

Gurney, Mr. J. J., 329

Guy, Dr., 534

Guy's Hospital Lunatic Ward, 211

Hale, 31, 32, 38

Hallaran, Dr., 398, 407

Halliday, Sir A., 127, 164, 165, 166, 167, 328

Hanwell Asylum, 177, 179, 180, 206, 207, 213, 228, 236, 489

Hardinge, Judge, on Dr. Battie, 86

Hardy's Act, 460

Harper, Dr., 142

Harvey, Mr., on Moorfields, 77

Haslam, Mr., 65, 80, 142, 152, 444

Haslar Hospital, 210, 213, 503

Hatchell, Dr., 423

Haverfordwest Asylum, 210, 253

Haywards Heath Asylum, 489

Hebrides, 19

Hellebore, 30, 31, 109

Henbane, 2

Henry VIII., portrait of, 73; treatment of insane in his reign, 27; grant of Bethlem, 58, 59

Herb treatment of insane, 1

Hereford Asylum, 183

Heron, Mr., 14

Higgins, Mr. G., 124, 150

Highgate Asylum, 305

Hill, Mr. R. Gardiner, 204, 205, 206, 447, Appendix H

Hills, Dr., 486

Hitch, Dr., 182, 446

Hitchcock, Professor, 284

Hitzig, 473, 480

Hogarth's Bethlem, 73, 74, 509

Hogenberg's map, 61

Hole in floor of cabin for lunatic, 395

Holidays, essential for superintendents, 465

Hollar's map, 65, 507

Holler, 482

Holy water, 2, 5

---- wells, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21

Hood, Dr., 191

Hop, 5

Hospitals, lunatic, 210, 263

Howard, John, 110-112

Howe, Dr. S. G., 303, 445

Humieres, Mrs., evidence of, 155

Humours, influence of, 9, 33, 34

Hutcheson, Dr., 334

Hutchinson, Mr. Jonathan, 468, 497

Hypnotism, 472

Idiots, 286, 299, 309, 483

Imbeciles, 299

Inch Maree, 17, 18

Increase of lunacy, apparent, 232, 253, 260

Incubi, 36

Industrial system, 381, 382

Inspectors of the poor, action of, in boarding out, 385

International Medical Congress, 443

Invocation to periwinkle, 3

Ipswich Borough Asylum, 250

Ireland, 23, 393

----, Dr., 304, 308

Ireland's Hogarth, 74

Irish Lunacy Inquiry Commission, 1878, 424-431

Island Bridge Asylum, 410

Itard, M., 301

Ivy ointment, 109

Jacke Napes, 56

Jackson, Dr. (Boston), 109

----, Dr. Hughlings, 471

Jacobi, Dr., 126, 333, 445, 459, 460, 465, 515

Jails, lunatics in (Ireland), 412

James I., 34

Jarvis, Dr. E., 492

Jepson, G., 116, 118

Jocelin, 28

Johnstone, Mr., 356

Junius on Chatham, 106

Kekewich, Mr., 191

Kennoway, 391

Kent Asylum, 180, 214

Kerry, 393

Kilkenny Asylum, 410, 421

Killarney Asylum, 339

Kimbell, Mr., 306

Kinnaird, 352

Kirkbride, Dr., 457, 458, 459, 460

Kitching, Dr., 515

Knowle, idiot asylum at, 306, 320

Kolk, Schroeder van der, 445, 467, 477, 482

Krafft-Ebing, 455

Lalor, Dr., 430, 438, 496

Lamb, Rt. Hon. W., 406

Lancaster Idiot Asylum, 306, 319

---- Asylum, 165, 166, 179, 208, 214, 245

Langermann, 460

Lansdowne, Marquis of, 162

Larbert Institution, 308

Latham, Dr., 454

Law, John, his servant, 22

Laycock, Professor, 468

Laying on of hands, 21

Leavesden Asylum, 240, 241, 262, 308, 319, 461

Leech, Saxon, 7

Leechdoms, Saxon, 1

Legislation, 97, 449, Appendices D-G

Leicester Asylum, 214, 250

Lelut, 477

Leonards, Lord St., 188, 518

Letterkenny Asylum, 423

Leuret, 444

Libcorns, 2

Liberton Institution, 308

Lifford Asylum, 410

Lilburne, John, 50

Limerick Asylum, 394, 398, 399, 410, 417

Lincoln County Asylum, 250

---- Lunatic Hospital, 165, 166, 179, 204, 206, 213, 250, 447, Appendix H

Lindsay, Dr. Lauder, 448

----, Dr. Murray, 499

Litton, Mr., 434, 437, 439, 441

Liverpool Asylum, 210, 214, 242

---- Street, 48, 50

Location of insane, 1844, 191, 211; 1847, 221; 1858, 1859, 191, etc.

Loch Maree, 17, 18

Lochmanur, scene at, in 1871, 20

London, City of, asylum, 250

London Spy, 75

Londonderry Asylum, 417

Lord Chancellor, 175, 257

---- Chancellor's Visitors, 285

Lotherwerd, 28

Lucas, M., 497

Luke's Hospital. See Saint

Lunatics are God's minstrels, 10

"Lunatik lollares," 11

Luther on Idiots, 318

Lutwidge, Mr., 191, 257, 418

Luys, Dr., 473, 483

Lyndsay, Sir David, 28

Lyttleton, Hon. W. H., 149

Macclesfield Asylum, 249

McCabe, Dr., 431

McIntosh, Dr., 334

Mackie, Mr., 356

McKinnons, Dr., 371

Mackworth, Mr., 101

McNeill, Sir John, 355

Madman's Glen, 24

---- Ford, 23

Madmen, cowards, 109

Madron Well, 13

Maelrubha, 17

Magnan, 448

Mahon, Lord, 104

Maistre, Joseph de, 112

Major, Dr. Herbert, 478, 479, 480

Malcolm, on Bethlem, 78

----, Dr., 334

Malmesbury, Lord, 170

Manchester Hospital, 210, 214

Mandrake, 3

Maniacs, how treated at the Retreat, 120, 121

Mapes, Walter, 8

Marce, 444

Maree, St., 17

Martin, Baron, 245

Maryborough Asylum, 408, 417

Masses sung, 2, 5, 6, 12

Masters in Lunacy, 291, Appendix M

Maudsley, Dr., 474, 501

Mayerne, Sir T., 32, 34

Mead, Dr., 109

Medical Repository, 136

Medico-psychological Association, functions of, 495

Melgund, Lord, 360

Melista, 19

Mesmerism, 472

Metropolitan Commissioners, 173-175, 177, 178 (Report), 187, 209, 220, (Report of 1841) 450, 515

---- Poor Act, 240, 241, 243

Meuynge after the mone, 11

Mewing of hawks, 54

Mewse, Royal, at Charing Cross, 54

Meyer, Dr., assault upon, 280

Mickle, Dr., 480, 481, 482

Mickley, Dr., 91

Middlesex Asylum, 165, 167

Mierzejewski, 483

Millard, Mr., 306, 319, 320

Millbank, 282

"Miller's Tale," 10

Mitchell, Dr. Arthur, 17, 18, 20, 21, 391, 392

Mitford, John, petition of, 164

Monks and the monastery in insanity, 8

Monro, Dr. Edward, 82

----, Dr. Henry, 470

----, Dr. James, 71, 81

----, Dr. John, 81, 86

----, Dr. Thomas, 68, 79, 82

Montrose Asylum, 343

Moon, 2, 4, 9, 11, 24, 31

Moir, Mr. G., 360

Monaghan Asylum, 423

Moorfields, 67, 68, 69, 86, 507

Moorgate, 67, 69

Moral insanity, 454

More, Sir T., 41, 56, 60

Morel, 444, 448, 467, 497

Motet, M., 284, 444, 446

Mould, Mr., 458, 503

Mount Hope Retreat, 484

Muggleton, Lodowick, 50

Mueller, Dr., 284

Mullingar Asylum, 421

Munk, 473

----, Dr., 64, 80, 81, 87

Murray Royal Institution, 329, 341

Musselburgh Asylums, 353

Naudi, Dr., 122, 123

Needham, Dr., 458, 504

Newington, Dr. Hayes, 497

Newton, Mr., his map, 60, 61, 508

----, Dr., 92

Nicoll, Mr. S. W., 129

Nicolson, Dr., 494

Nider, 36

Night goblin visitors (nightmare), 5

Niolin, red, 4

Non-restraint, 139, 177, 182, 204, 205, 213, 216, 220, 221, 223, 226, 228, 240, 342, 360, 416, 448, 494

Norfolk Asylum, 165, 166, 214, 250

Norman Conquest, treatment before the, 1

Normansfield, 307

Norris, case of, 79

Northampton Lunatic Hospital, 210, 213, 244, 504

Northumberland Asylum, 250

Norwich Asylum, 235, 249

Nottingham Asylum, 165, 166, 214, 486

Nugent, Dr., 417, 423

Occurring insanity, 260

O'Curry, Professor, 26

Ogilvie, Sir John, 308, 356

O'Hagan, Lord, 432, 434, 435, 437, 441

Oleum cephalicum, 93

Oliver Cromwell's porter, 71

Omagh Asylum, 421

Open-door system, 376-378

Orange, Dr. William, 273, 276, 494

Osborne, Dr., 407

Overall, Mr., 60, 507

Palmerston house for idiots, 309, 439

Paracelsus, 484

Parchappe, 131, 444, 459, 460, 478, 482

Pargeter, 142, 512

Park House, Highgate, 305, 456

Parole, liberty on, 378

Pathology of insanity, 476

Paul, Sir George, 127

Pauper lunatics in private dwellings, 262, 392

Peerless Pool, 88

Pennant, 17, 88

Penny gates at Bethlem, 71, 73

Peony, its virtue in insanity, 2, 3

Pepys and Bethlem, 65

Percy Reliques, 39, 40

Perfect, Dr., 141

Periwinkle, 3

Perth Asylum, 333

---- Tolbooth, 329

Philanthropist, the, 126

Philip, Dr., his asylum, 216

Philipps, Dr. Rees, 466

Phlebotomy, 95, 484

Piers the Plowman, 10

Pillory, insane treated at, 27, 29

Pinel, 118, 133, 142-46, 186, 268, 467, 482

Pitt. See Lord Chatham

Plastidules, 475

Poole, Dr., 304, 334

Pools, insane placed in, 12

Poor Law Act, 1874, 196

Pope, on Colley Cibber, 70

Possession, demoniacal, 1, 5, 9, 18, 43, 393

Posts, whipping, 41, 57

Poultices, 31

Power, Rev. John, 12

Preston Lodge, institution for imbeciles, 308

Prestwich Asylum, 226, 249

Prichard, Dr., 454

Priest employed in treatment, 2

Principles pursued at the Retreat, 135

Prison Act in Ireland, 399

Private asylums, 99, 193, 194, 199, 201, 211, 212, 223, 264

---- dwellings, 262, 286, 458

---- patients, how distributed, 263

Prochaska, 469

Proctor, Mr. (Barry Cornwall), 450

Progress of Psychological Medicine, 1841-81, 443

Properties, small, 295

Property, protection of, 286

Prospect of the future, 495

Psycho-motor centres, 481

Quarterly visitation of pauper lunatics, 189

Queen's pleasure men, 274

Radish, a cure for female chatter, 4

Rainhill Asylum, 226

Rake's Progress, 73, 509

Ramskill, Dr., 485

Ray, Dr., 108, 133, 449, 462, 463, 466

Rayner, Dr., 489

Recent changes in mode of administering Scotch asylums, 374

Recoveries in county asylums, private asylums, and lunatic hospitals, 263, 264

Recovery, statistics of, 263, 490

Reed, Rev. Andrew, 305, 456

Reil, 444, 460

Religious services, 369

Renton, Dr., 344

Rest in bed 489, 490

Restraint, abuse of, in Ireland, 420

Retreat. See York Retreat

Retrospect of the Past, 493

"Review of the Early History of the Retreat," 135

Reynolds, Dr., 107

Rice, Mr. T. Spring, 394, 398, 402, 406

Richart, accused, 22

Richmond Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, 400, 401, 406, 409, 417, 421, 438, 496

Ringmer Asylum, 224

Ripping, Dr., 492

Robert Evan, case of, 256

Robertson, Dr. Lockhart, 262, 263, 286, 296, 500

----, Dr. (Ireland), 424

Rome, treatment of a lunatic in, 27

Rose, Right Hon. G., 148, 149, 157, 159, 161, 202, 516

Roubiliac, 70

Rowe, Sir Thomas, 49, 508

Royal Commission (Ireland), 1856, 418

---- Asylums (Scotch), 341

---- Commission (Scotch) 1855, 340; report of, 342

Rural insanity, 362

Rush, Dr., 445

Rutherford, Dr., 372, 457

Rutherfurd, Lord, 338, 351, 352, 353

Rutter, J., his lines on Bethlem, 69

Saegert, Herr, 304

Saints, Cornish, 13

Salpetriere, 302

Salt, 5, 21

Salve employed against the elfin race, 5; and for the "wood-heart," 6

Sandisone, Elspeth, 22

Savage, Dr., 74, 284, 455, 482, 489

Savage of the Aveyron, 301

Saxons, treatment of insane by the, 1

Saxony, Elector of, 319

Scarlet oak, 31

Schools for the insane, 438

Scone, Augustan canon of, 28

Scot, Reginald, 31, 33, 37, 38

Scotch Board of Lunacy, 325, 347, 354

---- Commissioners, Report of, 1858, 360; 1878, 366; 1881, 373

---- system, analyzed, 373

Scotland, 14, 185, 321, 453

Seclusion, 139, 250, 273, 342

Seguin, Dr., 302, 456

----, Dr. E., 456

Select Committee. See Committee

Seymour, Lord R., 160, 165

Shaftesbury, Earl of, 173, 191, 202, 248, 267, 268, 447

Shakespeare, 29, 40, 54, 56, 60, 65, 84

Shaw, Dr. Claye, 461

Sheil, Mr., 203

Sherlock, Dr., 448

Shuttleworth, Dr., 306

Sibbald, Dr., 501

Siegburg Asylum, 460, 492, Appendix C

Silk, toasted, 95

Single patients, 186, 236, 262, 286

Skae, Dr., 371, 467

Skelton, 56

Skull of man executed, 33

Sligo Asylum, 421

Smart, Mr. T. L., 48

Smith, Mr., his notice of Bethlem, 65, 67, 69, 73, 507

----, Dr. C., 24

----, Mr. C. Roach, 50

----, Dr. John, 391

----, Sydney, 83, 123, 147, 151, 152

----, Mr. W., 149

Smollett, 96

Solly, 473

Somerset, Lord R., 175, 176, 177, 187, 202

Southey, Dr., 191, 450

Specifics in insanity, 486

Spencer, Herbert, 474, 475

Spitzka, Dr., 498

St. Agnes, 13

St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 58

St. Botolph, 45, 48

St. Fillan, 2, 14

St. George's Fields, 82, 84

St. Kea, 13

St. Kentigern, 14, 29

St. Levan, 13

St. Luke's Hospital, 86-91, 110, 113, 118, 166, 214, Appendix A

St. Mangose, 28

St. Maree, 17, 19

St. Martin's Lane, 53

St. Mary of Bethlem, 45

St. Molonah, 16

St. Nun, 11

St. Peter's Hospital, 210

St. Ronan, 16

St. Thomas' Asylum (Exeter), 210

St. Vincent de Paul, 301

St. Winifred, 9, 10

Stafford Asylum, 165, 214, 250

Stag's skull, 33

Star of Bethlem, 52

Starcraft (Saxon), 1

Starcross Institution, 306, 320

Stark, Mr., 121

Stearns, Dr., 460

Stewart, Dr. Henry, 309

----, Dr. Robert, 424

Stilliard's map, 61

Stocks, 43, 52

Stokes, Dr. (Baltimore), 484, 486

Stothard, 70

Stow, 53, 55, 88, 508

Strathfillan, 14

Struthill, 16

Submersion, 18, 19, 20, 513

Suffolk Asylum, 165, 214, 503

Sumner, George, 302

Superintendent of asylum, his strange mental environment, 464

----, the good, 460

Superstitions, Scotch, 14, 22

Surrey Asylum (Brookwood), 250, 505

----, (Wandsworth), 249

Swallows, stones from maw of, 5

Swift, Dean, 95

Swift's Asylum, 111, 396

Switzerland and idiots, 304

Symonds, Dr. J. Addington, 471

"Tale of a Tub," 95

Tamburini, Professor, 284

Temple of St. Molonah, 16

Temptations of the fiend, 4

Thornbury's "London," 88

Thurnam, Dr., 492

Timbs' London, 84

Tober-na-galt, 23

Tokens (Bedlam), 48

Tom of Bedlam, 39, 40, 65, 66

Tooke, Horne, 103

Torture in Scotland, 42

Townshend, Mr. T., 98, 99, 101, 202

Treatment of insane, advance in, 484, 490

"Tree of truth," 41

Trelat, 444

Trevelyan, Sir Charles, 312

----, Mr., 103

Tuileries, Bethlem copied the, 70

Tuke, William, 113-116, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135

----, Samuel, 89, 121, 125, 126, 150, 182, 187, 220, 333, 400

----, J. Batty, 391, 478

Turkish bath, 485

Tyndale, 56, 60

Tyson, Dr., 80, 81

University College, London, 443

Unzer, 468

Urban insanity, 362

Vale of St. Fillan, 14

Valley of Lunatics, 22

Ventry, battle of, 24

Virchow, 475, 476

Visitation of Asylums, 188

Vitre, Dr. de, 182, 306

Voisin, 302, 444

----, M. Aug., 480

Voluntary patients, 374

---- restraint, 215

Votive offerings, 16

Wakefield Asylum, 165, 166, 179, 180, 214, 250

Wakley, Mr., 176

Wales, 182, 253

Walpole, Mr., 191

Wandsworth Asylum, 249

Warburton, Dr., 164, 167, 168, 171, 183

Ward, Ned, 73, 75

Warneford Asylum, 210, 214

Warren, Dr., 107

Wastell cake, 53

Waterford Asylum, 399, 417

Weir, Dr., 156

Wells. See Holy

Wemyss, General, 324

Wesley, John, 108, 109

Western, Mr., 149

Westminster play, lines on Bethlem, 70

Westphal, 448, 478, 479, 480

Wexford, cells for lunatics, 411

Whipping insane, 7, 41, 42, 43, 57, 95, 513

Whitbread, Mr., 191

White, Dr., 411

----, Misses, 304

White Hart Tavern, 48

Whitmer, Dr., 284

Whittier, on St. Maree, 19

Wiclif, 299

Wierus, 35, 37

Wilbur, Dr. H. B., 303, 304

Wild Murdoch, 19

Wilkes, Mr., 98, 103, 418

Willes, Mr. Justice, 245

Williams, Mr. (afterwards Dr.), visiting physician to the Retreat, 333

----, Dr. Duckworth, 462, 489

----, Dr. W., 448

----, Dr. W., (Denbigh Asylum), 253

----, Mr. R. L., 257

Willis, Dr., 107

Windmill Hill, 86

---- Inn, 84

Winslow, Dr. Forbes, 446

Witch's bridle, 42

Witchcraft, 26, 31, 32, 34, 43

Witley, 85

"Wodnes" and "Wodman," 6

Wolf's flesh, 4

Wolsey, 56

Wonford Asylum, 466

"Wood," 6, 10

Wooden statues at Bethlem, 72

Woods, Dr. Oscar, 23

Woodward, Dr., 302, 445

Wordsworth, 54

Work, physical importance of, for women, 384

Workhouses, 126, 192, 199, 234, 250

---- (Irish), 430, 441

Wortcunning (Saxon), 1

Wortley, Mr. Stuart, 339

"Wud," 6

Wynn, Mr., 127, 128, 160, 161, 162, 164, 202, 203

Yellowlees, Dr., 372

York Asylum, 112, 124, 150, 174, 210, 244

---- Retreat, 113-125, 135, 187, 214, 220, 231, 244, 268, 323, 446, 493, 515. See Frontispiece

Young, Mr. G., 360

Ziemssen's "Cyclopaedia," 480

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