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Illustrations xi A representation of the mythical Thracian king Lykurgos 19 Madness Is Deceptive (1669) 71 Laginet, Allegory: Women Have the Stones of Folly Removed from Their Husbands’ Heads (eighteenth century) 79 Philippe Pinel has the irons removed from the insane at Bicêtre 95 Two views of circulating swings for treating insanity 103 William Hogarth, Scene in Bedlam (1735), from A Rake’s Progress (plate 8) 135 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Lunatic Asylum (ca. 1812–1819) 153 Interior view of a corridor in the asylum at Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States (1896) 161 A model phrenological head (1887) 169 Andrea Brouillet, A Clinical Lesson with Charcot at the Salpêtrière 1887 195 page xii is blank. ...

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