Research Guides: HIST 210: Biopower (HC): Primary Sources from Special Collections

Madness and Confinement

Friends Hospital records (1812-2000)
Extensive records from mental institution in Philadelphia, including patient and administrative records, published reports, and information on treatments
Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases (1922-1932)
Committee meeting minutes, reports and brochures for the hospital.
Alban Cope letters
Seven letters of Alban Cope during his time at New York State Lunatic Asylum in Utica and Harford Retreat. Letters addressed to T.P. Cope from Cope family
Anna Cope Evans letters
Anna Cope Evans suffered a nervous breakdown in 1900 and spent time in "Bournewood" in Brookline, MA. The collection includes her letters from Bournewood as well as letters from Rachel Cope Evans, Anna's mother, on her daughter's health and recovery.
Remarks on Insanity, n.d.
"belongs to T. Stewardson". Families of Philadelphia collection.
Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale, ou la manie (1801)
French handbook and manual on insanity and psychiatry by Philippe Pinel.
Edward Charles Spitzka scrapbook on insanity and psychiatry
These papers, collected by Edward Charles Spitzka, contain newspaper, magazine, and medical journal clippings from 1895 to 1903 that describe the research, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness, or “insanity.”
Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind (1812)
By Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.; Merritt, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1819 printer.; Kimber & Richardson publisher.
The insane in the United States and Canada (1885)
Book by Daniel Hack Tuke, publisher London: H.K. Lewis
A manual of psychological medicine
Contains the lunacy laws, the nosology, aetiology, statistics, description, diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of insanity : with an appendix of cases (1879). Book by Bucknill, John Charles, 1817-1897.; Tuke, Daniel Hack, 1827-1895, joint author. Publisher Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston
The natural method of curing the diseases of the body and the disorders of the mind, depending on the body (1753)
Book by Cheyne, George, 1672-1743.; Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784. Publisher, London : D. Browne
Observations on insanity, education and presumed improvements on Robert Owen's system of mutual co-operation (1828)
Book by Rickman, William. Publisher Philadelphia : Printed for the author
An appeal to the people of Pennsylvania on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor of the commonwealth (1838)
Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854.; Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869. Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed for the Committee.
Hints for introducing an improved mode of treating the insane in the asylum : read before the Governors of the New York Hospital (1815)
Eddy, Thomas, 1758-1827.; New York Hospital. West Chester Division, White Plains, N.Y.
1815. Publisher New York : S. Wood & Sons.
On the construction, organization, and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane (1854)
Book by Kirkbride, Thomas Story, 1809-1883. Publisher Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston
Rules for the management of the Asylum (1840)
Book by Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason. Publisher
Philadelphia : Brown, Bicking & Guilbert.
The first requisites in physician and nurse for the cure of insanity. Compiled (1881)
Book by H.O. Ward. Publisher
Philadelphia: : Sherman & Co., printers.
Retreat for persons afflicted with disorders of the mind
Broadsheet.
List of, and guidelines for, initial financial supporters of the Retreat, at York, for the care of persons afflicted with mental illnesses.
BOUND WITH: A meeting of Friends was held at York the 28th of 6th month, 1792, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of providing a retired habitation... for the members of our Society... who may be in a state of lunacy.
Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane
a lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane, delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables
A meeting of Friends was held at York the 28th of 6th month, 1792, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of providing a retired habitation... for the members of our Society... who may be in a state of lunacy (1793)
Broadsheet.
This meeting ultimately led to the establishment by Friends of The Retreat, at York, for the care of persons afflicted with mental illnesses.
Plan of an asylum for the relief of persons deprived of the use of their reason (1812)
The committee appointed by the Yearly Meeting, held at Philadelphia, to take under consideration the subject respecting a provision for such of our members as may be deprived of the use of their reason, reported .
A visit to thirteen asylums for the insane in Europe
Friends Hospital records. to which are added a brief notice of similar institutions in transatlantic countries and in the United States, and an essay on the causes, duration, termination and moral treatment of insanity, with copious statistics (1841)
By Earle Pliny.
Account of the rise and progress of the asylum
Proposed to be established, near Philadelphia, for the relief of persons deprived of the use of their reason. With an account of the Retreat, a similar institution near York, in England (1814)
Buildings for the insane
A report read at the Saratoga Conference of Charities, September 6, 1877. By Wilbur, H. B. (Hervey Backus), 1820-1883.; Conference of Charities (U.S.) 1877
An inquiry into certain errors relative to insanity; and their consequences: physical, moral, and civil. 1820
By Burrows, George Man, 1771-1846.; Friends Hospital records, 1812-1965
The construction and government of lunatic asylums and hospitals for the insane
Book by Conolly, John. List of plates: Derby Lunatic Asylum [a plan] -- General plan of a lunatic asylum : proposed at the request of the Hon. Hugh Bell, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for 200 patients -- Bird's-eye view of Jamaica Asylum -- General arrangement of a lunatic asylum, now in the course of erection at Kingston, Jamaica, 1847.
On the construction and management of hospitals for the insane; with a particular notice of the institution at Siegburg
Book by Jacobi, Maximilian, 1775-1858.; Friends Hospital records, 1812-1965.
Observations on disorders of the mind and nerves : in which their causes and moral treatment are particularly considered 1848
Book by Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876. Publisher London : Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
Essay on the classification of the insane. 1825
By Allen, Matthew.; Friends Hospital records, 1812-1965. Publisher London, John Taylor.
Types of insanity : an illustrated guide in the physical diagnosis of mental disease 1883
Hamilton, Allan McLane, 1848-1919 author.
1883. Publisher New York : William Wood & Company.
Sketches in Bedlam
Characteristic traits of insanity, as displayed in the cases of one hundred and forty patients of both sexes, now, or recently, confined in New Bethlem. To the above are added, a succinct history of the establishment, its rules, regulations, treatment of patients. 1823. Publisher London, Sherwood, Jones and co.
Madness, or, The maniacs' hall : a poem, in seven cantos 1841
Rickman, Edwin S. author. 1841. Publisher London : Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill.
Insanity tested by science, and shown to be a disease rarely connected with permanent organic lesion of the brain, and on that account far more susceptible of cure than has hitherto been supposed. 1848
Author Burnett, C. M. (Charles Mountford), 1807-1866.; Friends Hospital records, 1812-1965. Publisher London, Highley.
The half fettered infuriated maniac, an original picture : exhibiting that species of madness in which the lunatic has lost every social and philanthropic emotion of the heart.
Lafourcade, Peter M., printer.; Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.; Merry, Robert, 1755-1798. Not before 1812.
De la physiologie du système nerveux et spécialement du cerveau; $b recherches sur les maladies nerveuses en général, et en particulier sur le siége, la nature et le traitement de l'hystérie, de l'hypochondrie, de l'épilepsie et de l'asthme convuls
Two treatises on the human mind from a nineteenth century physiological perspective. The first treatise is a general study of the human nervous system and discusses the doctrine of innate ideas, and the effects of climate, education and religon on human development. The second treatise is a study of nervous disorders. Language: French. Author: Georget, Etienne Jean, 1795-1828.
Practical observations on insanity
some suggestions are offered towards an improved mode of treating diseases of the mind, and some rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more humane and successful method of cure 1811. Author Cox, Joseph Mason, 1762-1822.; Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823, publisher.; Friends Hospital records, 1812-1965.
The care and treatment of the insane, a medical question?
how the Odell lunacy law has destroyed the influence of the medical superintendents of the state hospitals for the insane, and subjected both the finances and employees [sic] of these great humanitarian institutions to political control : opinions of the non-partisan medical journals. Author: Odell, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Barker), 1854-1926.
1902?
Des causes morales et physiques des maladies mentales et de quelques autres affections nerveuses, telles que l'hystérie, la nymphomanie et le satyriasis.
Language: French. Author: Voisin, F. (Félix), 1794-1872.; Friends Hospital records, 1812-1965. Publisher Paris, Baillière. 1826.
Traité des affections vaporeuses des deux sexes : où l'on a tâché de joindre à une thèorie solide une pratique sûre, fondée sur des observations 1763
Author: Pomme, Pierre, 1735-1812. Publisher:
Lyon : Chez Benoit Duplain.

Phrenology and Physiognomy

George Combe letter
1839 letter discussing phrenology.
Phrenology, or, The doctrine of the mental phenomena
By Johann Spurzheim.
Boston: Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1838.
5th American edition.
Notes on the United States of North America during a phrenological visit in 1838-9-40.
By George Combe
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1841.
Photographs taken at Ellis Island
Various photographs from the early 20th century
Portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York
By Augustus Sherman
Early 20th century
Letter from C.G. Darrach
1865 10/12 about sending casts to the Phrenological Society
"Physogs" : the novel card game
British physiognomy game from the 1940s.
Mr. W. A. Williams will lecture on phrenology & its teachings at the above place, on Monday evening
Broadside
April 29, 1895
The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism, with Dr. Doddridge's Dream
by the Editor of “The Phrenological Review.”
Dr. Clark’s New Illustrated Marriage Guide
A Treatise on the Anatomy
and Physiology of the Generative Organs of Both Sexes, and their Organic
and Functional Diseases . . .
Newark, NJ : The Union Publishing Company, 1890
“Phrenological Character of Mr. M. S. Lincoln”
he item consists of a manuscript written by Lorenzo Niles Fowler bound with the published volume "Synopsis of phrenology" written by O. S. Fowler.
1838-1839
Etherology; or, The Philosophy of Mesmerism and Phrenology
By James Stanley Grimes.
New York: Saxton and Miles; Philadelphia: James M. Campbell; Boston:
Saxton, Peirce & Co., 1845
Physiology, Animal and Mental: Applied to the Preservation and Restoration of Health of Body, and Power of Mind
By O.S. Fowler
New York: Fowlers and Wells, Phrenological Cabinet, 131 Nassau Street,
1847.
Synopsis of phrenology : and the phrenological developments, together with the character and talents 1838
Author: Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887. Publisher: New York : Fowler and Wells.

Epidemics

Des moyens de conserver la santé des blancs et des Négres, aux Antilles ou climats chauds et humides de l'Amérique : contenant un exposé des causes des maladies propres à ces climats et à la traversée, relativement à la différence des positions, des sa
Author Bertin, N.; Méquignon, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1744-1830, publisher. Language: English
A collection of very valuable and scarce pieces relating to the last plague in the year 1665.
Publisher: London : J. Roberts
The dreadful visitation : in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague, the last time it spread in the city of London in the year 1665 extracted from the memoirs of a person who resided there, during the whole time of that infection 1763
Publisher: Germantown Pa. : Printed by Chr. Sower
A brief discovery of the cause for which this land mourns, and is afflicted : With several remedies to be applyed in order to the removal of the present visitation. Given forth the 2d of the 6th Month called August, 1665.
Authors: Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.; Speed, Thomas, 1622 or 1623.
Vaccination in patch form
By Christine Kermaire, Artist's Book, 2020. Gray textile containing 25 laminated panels of text and images, sealed with a Velcro band.
William Warder Cadbury papers
Letters from 1917 discuss vaccinations and bubonic plague (Cadbury was a missionary doctor, so likely LOTS of health/disease related materials; the collection is very large)
Allinson family papers
Two letters of 1793 from Joseph and Thomas Scattergood discuss yellow fever in Philadelphia. Collection Identifier: HC.MC-968
Meditations written during the prevalence of the yellow fever in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793
Author: Cresson, Joshua. 1803.
Occasional essays on the yellow fever 1800
Creator: Philadelphian. Publisher: Philadelphia : J. Ormrod
Short history of the yellow fever, that broke out in the city of Philadelphia, in July 1797
With a list of the dead; of the donations for the relief of the poor, and a variety of other interesting particulars. Author: Richard Folwell. Publisher:
Philadelphia : Printed by Richard Folwell, no. 33, Carter's-Alley
A treatise on the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever : as it lately appeared in the city of Philadelphia ; exhibiting a concise view of its rise, progress and symptoms, together with the method of treatment found most successful ; also remarks on the
Currie, William, 1754-1828.; Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823 printer.; Pennsylvania. Governor (1790-1799 : Mifflin), dedicatee.; College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
1794. Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson.
Benjamin Smith letterbook 1793
Discusses yellow fever epidemic (Smith eventually dies of yellow fever). Collection identifier: HC.MC-975-02-036
Joshua Cresson diary
Discusses 1793 yellow fever epidemic and death of many of Cresson’s friends. Collection Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-098
Morris family commonplace book
Includes copied extracts from the diary of Margaret Morris, where she discusses the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Collection Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-065
History of the pestilence, commonly called yellow fever, which almost desolated Philadelphia, in the months of August, September & October, 1798
Author: Condie, Thomas, 1775?-1814.; Folwell, Richard, 1768?-1814
Interesting essays, chiefly on the subject of the yellow fever, interspersed with some remarks on the progress of the preparations for permanent bridge; and occasionally containing a few observations, relative to the great cause of general humanity 1802
Philadelphian. December, 1802
The life experience and Gospel labors of Richard Allen
to which is annexed the rise and progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Containing a narrative of the yellow fever ... 1793; with an address to the people of color in the United States. 1887.
Minutes of the proceedings of the Committee, appointed on the 14th September, 1793, by the citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties and the District of Southwark, to Attend to and Alleviate the Sufferings of the Afflicted
Philadelphia (Pa.). Citizens. Committee for Relieving the Sick and Distressed. Publisher:
Philadelphia : Printed by R. Aitken.
Facts and observations relative to the nature and origin of the pestilential fever, which prevailed in this city, in 1793, 1797, and 1798
College of Physicians of Philadelphia.; Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823, publisher. 1798
An earnest call : occasioned by the alarming pestilential contagion. Addressed to the inhabitants of Philadelphia. 1793
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by Jones, Hoff & Derrick.
Margaret Hill Morris letters
About the 1793 yellow fever epidemic (Morris was known as a nurse/medical practitioner, particularly during the revolutionary war).
Collection Identifier: HC.MC-1000
Hartshorne family papers
Henry Hartshorne was a doctor, and his papers include materials related both to yellow fever and cholera treatments. 1797-1957. Collection Identifier: HC.MC-1030
A new theory of acute and slow continued fevers
Author: Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743 Publisher: London : D. Browne.
A dissertation of the small pox 1702
Author: Daniel Phillips, 1667 or 1668-1748. Publisher: London : T. Sowle.
Hoskins family letterbook
Includes letters related to smallpox. 1729-1864.
Collection Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-034
Sarah Vaux Cresson correspondence
Includes discussion of small pox and scarlet fever. Collection Identifier: HC.MC-1184, Box 18
A treatise on a consumption of the lungs : With a previous account of nutrition, and of the structure and use of the lungs 1726
Author: Barry, Edward, Sir, 1696-1776.; Grierson, George, -1753 printer
Cope-Collins-Morris papers
Includes discussion of cholera outbreak in Philadelphia. Identifier: HC.MC-950-046
Report of the committee appointed to investigate the local causes of cholera in the Arch Street Prison, in the City of Philadelphia, 1833
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Committee to Investigate the Local Causes of Cholera in the Arch Street Prison, Philadelphia.

Prostitution

Extrait du registre des délibérations du conseil general de la commune de Lisieux 1794?
Lisieux (France). Conseil général.; Coessin, Jean. not before March 1794
Alice Lewis Pearson letters
Includes discussion of her fight against prostitution in Japan, early 20th century.
Collection Identifier: HC.MC-1010, box 2

Spas and Baths, Public Health, Hygiene

Ireland : its health-resorts and watering places 1888
Flinn, David Edgar author.
Minnesota as a home for invalids 1871
Author: Mattocks, Brewer, 1841-1934
The northern traveller ; and Northern tour : with the routes to the Springs, Niagara, and Quebec, and the coal mines of Pennsylvania ; also, the tour of New England. 1830
Guide book
John Pemberton diaries
1750-4 (he is in Bath for part of this – need to check to see if he mentions the spa/ medical aspects).
Walks through Bath 1819
Describing every thing worthy of interest ... including Walcot and Widcombe, and the surrounding vicinity ... also an excursion to Clifton and Bristol hot-wells. Author: Egan, Pierce, 1772-1849.
A plain philosophicall demonstration of the nature, faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments make for the preservation of health, with divers necessary dieteticall observations; as also of the true use and effects of Sleep, E
Author: Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660.; Bishop, Richard, active 1631-1653 printer.; Hood, Henry, active 1635-1654 bookseller.
Tunbrigialia 1709
Genre: Poetry Author: Causton, Peter. Publisher: Londini
De conservanda bona valetvdine opvscvlvm Scholae Salernitanae 1587
Early work of health and hygiene 1587
Letter to the people on health and happiness 1856
Author: Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878. Publisher: New York : Harper
Dress and health, or, How to be strong : a book for ladies. 1876
Author: John Dougall & Son.
"This little volume is a compilation rather than an original work. The matter it contains has been selected from many different sources"--Preface.
Common Sense in the Nursery 1885
Author: Harland, Marion, 1830-1922
An essay on diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. With proper rule for preventing their fatal consequences and instructions for their cure 1768
Author: Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797. Publisher: London : E. and C. Dilly.
Experiments and observations on the mineral waters of Philadelphia, Abington, and Bristol, in the province of Pennsylvania 1773
Author: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813. Publisher: Philadelphia : J. Humphreys, jr.
Our water supply : what it is, and what it should be 1889
Author: Hartshorne, Henry, 1823-1897. Publisher: Philadelphia : Collins printing house
Letters, Constantinople and no place, 1862-1863 to Consul Dunlop Discusses neglect of waterworks
Author: Slade, Adolphus, Sir, 1804-1877. Habit of Muslims to wear verse amulets to ward off evil; dearth of water and neglect of water works; Sultan entertaining his troops; banquet given by Grand Vizier for diplomatic corps; re colleague Cumberbatch
Papers on public health Water, sanitation, quarantine, infant mortality, etc
Collection Identifier: HC.MC-1030. Box 5.
Thomas P. Cope. Papers from time in City Council, 1800-1843
"committee for watering the city"; bridge over the Schuylkill; rental property of the city corporation; fire relief for Dock Street (May 9, 1806); health laws. Collection Identifier: HC.MC-1013. Box 1 Folder 4
Report on the water supply for the city of Philadelphia 1875
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Commission of Engineers
Report of the Watering Committee, upon the present state of the works for supplying the city with water, and the several other plans proposed for that purpose. May 2, 1812.
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Watering Committee.