Brunonian psychiatry
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Brunonian psychiatry
Medical men have been cast in a singularly dim light in recent histories of the formative years of psychiatry. We are told, correctly, that the medical ancien regime in such traditional institutions for the mad as Bethlem-a regime of routine and standardized bleedings, purges and vomits-was hidebound, rigid, and ineffectual. In the 1750s, faced with an extraordinary attack from William Battie, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300070824