Customers and Patrons of the Mad-trade

Customers and Patrons of the Mad-trade
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Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 1597345687
ISBN-13 : 9781597345682
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Download or read book Customers and Patrons of the Mad-trade written by Jonathan Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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