John Haslam
(1764–1844)

British physician and writer on mental illness

John Haslam

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  • Observations on Insanity, with Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection (1798)
    • second edition was entitled Observations on Madness and Melancholy (1809)
  • Illustrations of Madness, with a Description of the Tortures experienced by Bomb-bursting, Lobster-cracking, and Lengthening the Brain (1810)
  • (contrib.) Observations of the Physician [Dr. Thomas Monro] and Apothecary of Bethlem Hospital upon the Evidence before the House of Commons on Madhouses (1816)
  • Considerations on the Moral Management of Insane Persons (1817)
  • Medical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity (1817)
  • A Letter to the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital, containing an Account of their Management for the last Twenty Years (1818)
  • Sound Mind, or Contributions to the History and Physiology of the Human Intellect (1819)
  • A Letter to the Lord Chancellor on Unsoundness of Mind and Imbecility of Intellect (1823)
  • On the Nature of Thought and its Connexion with a Perspicuous Sentence (1835)

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