The Advertisement Archive III

Beyond Hadfield’s lamentation for his animal friend is the story of a man who would inadvertently transform the legal perception of insanity beyond recognition

This month we continue our appraisal of the Victorian photographs of patients, looking at the photo of John Payne.

In the introduction to Medical Muses, a study of hysterical patients in the Salpêtrière Hospital in the nineteenth century, Asti Hustvedt notes...