Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London

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 ...