| Description Of Item | From the collection of Richard Poole. Poole's note with the folder reads 'some elsewhere transcribed others deserving to be so - all needing arrangement. Among them Lord Brougham's opinion respecting the care of Bellingham who murdered Percival. Several relate to affairs in asylums in the United States'. Some papers duplicate those in POR/5/12/3. Also includes Mr Bentham on insanity; notes on Dr Carpenter; case note on Mrs Wallace by Poole, 13th April 1849; distinguishing hallucinations and lunatic or delirious ideas; Spanish asylums; Mr Jarvis on the treatment of coloured people in the United States, 1844; Dr Woodward's report on the Massachusetts State Hospital for the Insane, 1843; Hanwell Asylum inmates; pathological views of insanity; Opinion as to responsibility of the insane; description of the Dundee Asylum; report by Dr Ray of the Insane Hospital, Maine; table showing the number of cases of insanity among the free and slave blacks of the southern states of the United States; report from the New Hampshire Asylum; and an acute delirium observed in establishments for the insane by Dr Briere de Boisement. |