Madmen

Author: Roy Porter
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0752419722

Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors & Lunatics (Revealing History)

What was it like to be insane in the Georgian England of Mary Wollstonecraft and Coleridge? Indeed, how was the most famous mad person of the centuryAShelley's Aold, mad, blind, despised king" George IIIAtreated before his final descent into insanity in 1808? The best-selling popular historian, Roy Porter, looks at the bizarre and savage practices used by doctors for treating those afflicted by manias, ranging from huge doses of opium, blood-letting, and cold water immersion to beatings, confinement in cages, and blistering. Get Madmen diet books 2013 for free.
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