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togger Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I would think that as a starting point on all your subjects would be the Sheffield Library or Sheffield Archives i know they will be in a position to help you along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 and I would think using the Google Custom Search (which searches this site) would be a great start point. Entering medicine as the search I found reference to Dr Davis and his translation of the French work - Treatise on Insanity. Davis was, of course, in attendance at the birth of Queen Victoria. He lived - well, lets leave that for now ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Bunch of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Arguing about vaccination : and smallpox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Atkinson's Royal Infant Preservative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 A little early for your requirements, but, widespread in its day. Buchan's Domestic Medicine Before Mr. Gales's time this house was the residence of Dr. Buchan, who wrote there his celebrated work, Domestic Medicine. At one time the book was in the hands of almost every one on both sides of the Atlantic, wherever the English language is spoken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Brief mention of Define "lunatic" or "lunacy" in an 1844 kind of way, just what did it mean > Were epileptics considered lunatics at that time ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 <div class="post entry-content ">In 1720 a Commission in Lunacy sat at the house of William Watson, the sign of 'The Bush' in Sheffield; and tis is the solitary note of a tavern of that name.<br /> <br /> Hartshead/Watsons Walk area.<br /> <br /> Robert Eadon Leader (1901)</div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Lunacy versus Liberty. September 1833, from Google Books (searched on sheffield lunacy) The whole Society of Friends, called Quakers, are an eccentric body; and if eccentricity constitutes madness, they deserve confinement .... Bonkers ranting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Workhouses, not licensed, containing lunatic wards. Hopefully, here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Elilepsy, Visitations of Private Lunatic Asylums and Sheffield General Infirmary - here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 On the Northern Circuit last week, a person was tried for signing a certificate of lunacy without being duly qualified ... (March 1868) Glasgow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Lunacy Regulation Act (1853), no, I don't know anything about it either, but it could be worth chasing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Philippe Pinel, A Treatise on Insanity; translated D D Davis (Sheffield: Cadell and Davies, 1806) and I would think using the Google Custom Search (which searches this site) would be a great start point. Entering medicine as the search I found reference to Dr Davis and his translation of the French work - Treatise on Insanity. Davis was, of course, in attendance at the birth of Queen Victoria. He lived - well, lets leave that for now ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unitedite Returns Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I can think of a couple of Sheffield related medically related incidents that are certainly worth looking at from another, more up to date perspective:- Possible Sources as follows. Barry, F. 1889. Report on an epidemic of smallpox at Sheffield during 1887-88. London: Her Majesty’s Stationary Office. Hainsworth, R. 1889. Results of investigation in the Sheffield smallpox epidemic of 1887.Leeds: Oldfield, Brooke,& Co. A SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC IN SHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM, 1887-1888 A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in The Department of Geography and Anthropology By Ann-Marie Cain B.S., University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2000 August 2004 Stokes, John M.A., M.D.LL.B., B.Sc.: The History of the Cholera Epidemic of 1832 in Sheffield; Sheffield J.W. Northend Limited 1921. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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