By Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull. 209 pp. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003. $44.95. ISBN 0-520-22660-7.
Historical research at its best is a treasure hunt for the past,illuminated in lost documents that turn up in unexpected waysand in surprising places. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scullwere alerted to the case book of John Monro, an 18th-century"Mad-Doctor," in the course of research on Bethlem, or Bethlehem,Hospital, even now the best-known mental hospital in the English-speakingworld. They found it among a trove of family papers in the custodyof descendants of the Monro family, who had presided as physiciansto the Bethlehem Hospital from 1728 to 1853. The case book recordsclinical information . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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