‘Details on the Establishment of Doctor Willis, for the Cure of Lunatics’ (1796)

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ID19444846
AutoresLeonard Smith (0000-0001-9949-3666, University of Birmingham, autor de correspondencia), Timothy J Peters (0000-0003-2881-4180, University of Birmingham), Timothy Peters (University of Birmingham)
Año2017
Volumen28
Número3
Páginas365-377
Fecha de publicación2017-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0957-154X • E-ISSN: 1740-2360
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0957154x17698102
PMID28776398
OpenAlexW2743552588
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas9

The ‘mad-doctor’ Dr Francis Willis achieved national and international celebrity following his successful treatment of King George III’s first major episode of insanity in 1788–9. At the time of his summons to attend the King, Willis was a well-established provincial practitioner and madhouse proprietor. An anonymous French visitor published a description of Willis’s Lincolnshire madhouse and his therapeutic practices in 1796. The translated text of the full article provides a unique insight into the work of a key figure in the historical development of psychological medicine. The accompanying Introduction summarizes Francis Willis’s career as a mad-doctor and uses salient information from the original text to place him and his madhouse practice within a contemporary context

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