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lunatic asylum         
  • [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury]], a vigorous campaigner for the reform of lunacy law in England, and the Head of the [[Lunacy Commission]] for 40 years.
  • Views of Toledo State Hospital for the Insane
  • Eastern State Hospital]] was the first psychiatric institution to be founded in the United States.
  • Egas Moniz]] pioneered the field of [[psychosurgery]] with the lobotomy of a patient's frontal lobes in 1935.
  • Dr. Philippe Pinel at the [[Salpêtrière]], 1795 by [[Tony Robert-Fleury]]. Pinel ordering the removal of chains from patients at the Paris Asylum for insane women.
  • [[William A. F. Browne]] was an influential reformer of the lunatic asylum in the mid-19th century, and an advocate of the new 'science' of [[phrenology]].
  • alt=A map of the original Bethlem Hospital site
  • The [[York Retreat]] (c. 1796) was built by [[William Tuke]], a pioneer of moral treatment for the insane.
  • [[Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital of Prison Type of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs]] was a psychiatric institution used by the Soviet authorities to suppress dissent.
  • The joint counties' lunatic asylum, erected at [[Abergavenny]], 1850
  • Advertisement for Thorazine (chlorpromazine) from the early 1960s<ref>The text reads: ''When the patient lashes out against "them" – THORAZINE (brand of chlorpromazine) quickly puts an end to his violent outburst. 'Thorazine' is especially effective when the psychotic episode is triggered by delusions or [[hallucination]]s. At the outset of treatment, Thorazine's combination of antipsychotic and sedative effects provides both emotional and physical calming. Assaultive or destructive behavior is rapidly controlled. As therapy continues, the initial sedative effect gradually disappears. But the antipsychotic effect continues, helping to dispel or modify delusions, hallucinations and confusion, while keeping the patient calm and approachable. SMITH KLINE AND FRENCH LABORATORIES leaders in psychopharmaceutical research.''</ref>
OLD NAME FOR A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
Insane asylum; Mental asylum; Insane asylums; Mental asylums; Lunatic Asylum; Insane Asylum; History of Psychiatric Hospitals; History of psychiatric hospitals; Lunatic asylums; Looney bins; Loony bins; History of psychiatric institutions
¦ noun dated a psychiatric hospital.
lunatic asylum         
  • [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury]], a vigorous campaigner for the reform of lunacy law in England, and the Head of the [[Lunacy Commission]] for 40 years.
  • Views of Toledo State Hospital for the Insane
  • Eastern State Hospital]] was the first psychiatric institution to be founded in the United States.
  • Egas Moniz]] pioneered the field of [[psychosurgery]] with the lobotomy of a patient's frontal lobes in 1935.
  • Dr. Philippe Pinel at the [[Salpêtrière]], 1795 by [[Tony Robert-Fleury]]. Pinel ordering the removal of chains from patients at the Paris Asylum for insane women.
  • [[William A. F. Browne]] was an influential reformer of the lunatic asylum in the mid-19th century, and an advocate of the new 'science' of [[phrenology]].
  • alt=A map of the original Bethlem Hospital site
  • The [[York Retreat]] (c. 1796) was built by [[William Tuke]], a pioneer of moral treatment for the insane.
  • [[Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital of Prison Type of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs]] was a psychiatric institution used by the Soviet authorities to suppress dissent.
  • The joint counties' lunatic asylum, erected at [[Abergavenny]], 1850
  • Advertisement for Thorazine (chlorpromazine) from the early 1960s<ref>The text reads: ''When the patient lashes out against "them" – THORAZINE (brand of chlorpromazine) quickly puts an end to his violent outburst. 'Thorazine' is especially effective when the psychotic episode is triggered by delusions or [[hallucination]]s. At the outset of treatment, Thorazine's combination of antipsychotic and sedative effects provides both emotional and physical calming. Assaultive or destructive behavior is rapidly controlled. As therapy continues, the initial sedative effect gradually disappears. But the antipsychotic effect continues, helping to dispel or modify delusions, hallucinations and confusion, while keeping the patient calm and approachable. SMITH KLINE AND FRENCH LABORATORIES leaders in psychopharmaceutical research.''</ref>
OLD NAME FOR A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
Insane asylum; Mental asylum; Insane asylums; Mental asylums; Lunatic Asylum; Insane Asylum; History of Psychiatric Hospitals; History of psychiatric hospitals; Lunatic asylums; Looney bins; Loony bins; History of psychiatric institutions
(lunatic asylums)
A lunatic asylum was a place where mentally disturbed people used to be locked up. (OLD-FASHIONED)
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lunatic asylum         
  • [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury]], a vigorous campaigner for the reform of lunacy law in England, and the Head of the [[Lunacy Commission]] for 40 years.
  • Views of Toledo State Hospital for the Insane
  • Eastern State Hospital]] was the first psychiatric institution to be founded in the United States.
  • Egas Moniz]] pioneered the field of [[psychosurgery]] with the lobotomy of a patient's frontal lobes in 1935.
  • Dr. Philippe Pinel at the [[Salpêtrière]], 1795 by [[Tony Robert-Fleury]]. Pinel ordering the removal of chains from patients at the Paris Asylum for insane women.
  • [[William A. F. Browne]] was an influential reformer of the lunatic asylum in the mid-19th century, and an advocate of the new 'science' of [[phrenology]].
  • alt=A map of the original Bethlem Hospital site
  • The [[York Retreat]] (c. 1796) was built by [[William Tuke]], a pioneer of moral treatment for the insane.
  • [[Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital of Prison Type of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs]] was a psychiatric institution used by the Soviet authorities to suppress dissent.
  • The joint counties' lunatic asylum, erected at [[Abergavenny]], 1850
  • Advertisement for Thorazine (chlorpromazine) from the early 1960s<ref>The text reads: ''When the patient lashes out against "them" – THORAZINE (brand of chlorpromazine) quickly puts an end to his violent outburst. 'Thorazine' is especially effective when the psychotic episode is triggered by delusions or [[hallucination]]s. At the outset of treatment, Thorazine's combination of antipsychotic and sedative effects provides both emotional and physical calming. Assaultive or destructive behavior is rapidly controlled. As therapy continues, the initial sedative effect gradually disappears. But the antipsychotic effect continues, helping to dispel or modify delusions, hallucinations and confusion, while keeping the patient calm and approachable. SMITH KLINE AND FRENCH LABORATORIES leaders in psychopharmaceutical research.''</ref>
OLD NAME FOR A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
Insane asylum; Mental asylum; Insane asylums; Mental asylums; Lunatic Asylum; Insane Asylum; History of Psychiatric Hospitals; History of psychiatric hospitals; Lunatic asylums; Looney bins; Loony bins; History of psychiatric institutions
Madhouse, bedlam, insane asylum, insane hospital, hospital for the insane.

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Lunatic asylum
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Examples of use of lunatic asylum
1. Is this a hospital or a lunatic asylum?» Hamid has been in the hospital for three days.
2. Is this a hospital or a lunatic asylum?" Hamid has been in the hospital for three days.
3. After a further hands–on body search and the hissing of a number of electric doors, you find yourself in the grounds of an old–fashioned Victorian criminal lunatic asylum.
4. Astonishingly, his scurrilous claims were not only taken seriously by the public, but also the police, Home Office and the King himself, who secretly wanted Hall committed to a lunatic asylum, according to documents held at the National Archive in Kew.
5. If it doesn‘t scan, it gets changed.‘ He met his French wife, Hermine, at a dance in Bedford Square; she told him she had escaped from a lunatic asylum in Switzerland – ‘which was a complete lie‘. They moved in together a few days later, and married in 1'65. ‘I wanted to live in Primrose Hill,‘ he says. ‘But it was too expensive.
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