A mad house transformed: the lives and work of Charles James Beverly FRS (1788–1868) and John Warburton MD FRS (1795–1847)
Bethnal Green Asylum was the most notorious of the scandalous early nineteenth–century private madhouses exposed in two parliamentary Select Committees of 1815/16 and 1827. From being vilified as the worst asylum in the country, this huge and important institution was transformed over 15 years into...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rsnr.2004.0064 2024-06-02T08:01:49+00:00 A mad house transformed: the lives and work of Charles James Beverly FRS (1788–1868) and John Warburton MD FRS (1795–1847) Murphy, E. 2004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2004.0064 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsnr.2004.0064 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London volume 58, issue 3, page 267-281 ISSN 0035-9149 journal-article 2004 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2004.0064 2024-05-07T14:16:24Z Bethnal Green Asylum was the most notorious of the scandalous early nineteenth–century private madhouses exposed in two parliamentary Select Committees of 1815/16 and 1827. From being vilified as the worst asylum in the country, this huge and important institution was transformed over 15 years into one of the best by two determined men, both Fellows of The Royal Society, John Warburton MD, the proprietor, and Charles James Beverly, the medical superintendent, former naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer. This paper describes their hitherto unrecorded biographies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic The Royal Society Arctic Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 58 3 267 281 |
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Bethnal Green Asylum was the most notorious of the scandalous early nineteenth–century private madhouses exposed in two parliamentary Select Committees of 1815/16 and 1827. From being vilified as the worst asylum in the country, this huge and important institution was transformed over 15 years into one of the best by two determined men, both Fellows of The Royal Society, John Warburton MD, the proprietor, and Charles James Beverly, the medical superintendent, former naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer. This paper describes their hitherto unrecorded biographies. |
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A mad house transformed: the lives and work of Charles James Beverly FRS (1788–1868) and John Warburton MD FRS (1795–1847) |
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