Illustrations of madness

exhibiting a singular case of insanity, and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion : developing the nature of assailment... with a description of the tortures experienced by bomb-bursting, lobster-cracking, and lengthening the brain ...

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John Haslam's Illustrations of Madness, written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by a British psychiatrist. John Haslam, apothecary to London's Bethlem Hospital, and a leading psychiatrist of the early-nineteenth century, details the case of James Tilly Matthews, who had been a patient in the hospital for some ten years. Matthews claimed he was sane, as did his friends and certain doctors. Haslam, on behalf of the Bethlem authorities, contended he was insane, and attempted to demonstr.