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The best–selling popular historian, Roy Porter, looks at the bizarre and savage practices used by doctors for treating those afflicted by “manias,” ranging from huge doses of opium, blood–letting and cold water immersion to beatings, confinement in cages and blistering. The author also reveals how Bethlem—the London asylum created to care for the mentally sick of the capital—was riddled with sadism and embezzlement, and if that wasn’t dehumanizing enough, jeering, ogling sightseers were permitted entry—for a fee of course.
Until his recent untimely death, Roy Porter was one of Britain’s most revered social historians. His other books include Enlightenment, London: A Social History and Quacks, also published by Tempus.
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