Mad-houses : observations on the Act for regulating mad-houses, and a correction of the statements of the case of Benjamin Elliott, convicted of illegally confining Mary Daintree : with remarks addressed to the friends of insane persons / by James Parkinson.

  • Parkinson, James, 1755-1824.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Mad-houses : observations on the Act for regulating mad-houses, and a correction of the statements of the case of Benjamin Elliott, convicted of illegally confining Mary Daintree : with remarks addressed to the friends of insane persons / by James Parkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This, however, occasioned a renewal of the in- terference of my friends, who urged me to defend myself; but I was loth to trouble myself with re- sisting that which I believed could not injure. The next attack was from a short lived medical newspaper, The Apollo, and as I am informed, with a considerable degree of contemptible malig- nity. Of this, however, I do not speak on my own knowledge, for, on endeavouring to obtain a copy of the paper, the publication was found to be stopped. Still it did not appear to be neces- sary to obtrude myself on the public on account of these attacks. passage is offered for this purpose, and, it is supposed, must prove satisfactory. Who are the parties in that house ? (Mrs. Burrowes's house) whether the keeper there and those at Bethnal-green, are not the same, so that they are enabled to play into each other's hands, and elude the inquirer after lost persons, or persons decoyed from the basest motives ? I cannot help here observing, in justice to Mrs. Burrowes, that I believe no other party has any concern in the house which she keeps; that she has no connection with any other house of the same description, that her character is unim- peachable. With equally good information, this writer observes, that « he believes the visitors from the college of physicians have hitherto done no services. There is one other person who entertains, or did affect to entertain, similar notions with those of this writer. Mr. Alley promised the jury on this trial, that the business should not stop here, that however high their situation, these gentlemen (the visitors) should be taught that they were not to wear their honours like useless nodding plumes.