Customers and patrons of the mad-trade : the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London : with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book / Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201) and index.

Customers, patrons, and their mad-doctor -- A rare resource : John Munro's case book -- Profiling patients and patterns of practice -- The craft of consultation : managing patients and their problems -- Diagnosing the mad -- Religion, madness, and the case book -- Treating patients and getting paid -- Being mad in eighteenth-century England : patients' views of their own illnesses.

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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.

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