Volume of publications and tracts on York Lunatic Asylum

Date:
1814-1902
Reference:
RET/8/1/1/2/2
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Volume of publications and tracts on York Lunatic Asylum. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Volume contains the following: 1. Charles G. Milnes Gaskell, Passages in the History of York Lunatic Asylum 1772 - 1901 (1902), with annotations by H.C. Hunt 2. Vindication of Mr Higgins from the Charges of Corrector: including A Sketch of recent Transactions at the York Lunatic Asylum. Addressed to Earl Fizwilliam by a New Governor [S.W. Nicoll] (1814) [there is another copy of this in RET 8/1/1/1] 3. The Evidence taken before a Committee of the House of Commons respecting the Asylum at York; with observations and notes and a letter to the Committee etc by Godfrey Higgins (1816) 4. A Complete Collection of the Papers respecting the York Lunatic Asylum published originally in the York Newspapers during the Years 1813, 1814, and 1815. Nil Desperandum (1816) [there is another copy of this in RET 8/1/1/1]

Publication/Creation

1814-1902

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1 volume

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