To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction — Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
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To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction of today's and what we would now call mental disorders were often understood as religious ecstasies or diabolical possessions.

— Mike Jay, A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
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