in the opinion of his madness but to me tis a proof of his being in a right mind.ĭear son, I desire you, and your brother pray for this poor afflicted man. However be it.Monroe last night sent him to a madhouse at Chelsea, where he is to undergo their usual method of cure in case of real madness notwithstanding in their treatment of him, he behaved with great calmness, and meekness, nor ever but once swore at them, for.he presently condemned himself and said, Lord what sin have I been guilty of, and cry'd to God for mercy, and pardon. For the ensuing discussion of this case see Mrs Clarks Case (London, 1718), and The True Case of Mrs Clerke: Set forth by her Brothers SirEdward and Mr. 1932, 4, illustrations, original cloth - Richard HUNTER and Ida MACALPINE. 4 See Richard Hunter & Ida Macalpine, Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry 1535-1860 (London, Oxford University Press, 1963), 298 and Porter, Mind-Forgd Manacles, 149. I think his wife was ill advised to send for that.wretched fellow Monroe for by what I hear, the man is not Lunatick, but rather under strong convictions of sin and hath much more need of a spiritual, than bodily physician. Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry 1535-1860, London: O.U.P., 1963. Parry-Jones, The Trade in Lunacy: Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (London: Routeldge and Kegan Paul, 1972). The reason of my writing so soon is, I'm somewhat troubled at the case of poor Mr MacCune. Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine, Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry 15351860 (London: Oxford University Press, 1963) William Ll. I hope this will find you safe at Bristol. Susannah Wesley was aghast that a man who was possibly suffering only from scrupulosity was involuntarily committed to a "madhouse." She described her concern in a Decemletter to her son.
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