By Allan Ingram
Language has continually been used as a degree of social, ideological, and mental contexts for the exploration of insanity. The Madhouse of Language considers the family among insanity and language from the past due 17th to early 19th centuries, targeting the shut research of either scientific files and texts via mad writers. It provides a hugely unique account of the linguistic relatives among insanity and sanity, of the appropriation by means of sane writers of the sorts of English, and of makes an attempt via mad sufferers to realize entry to the expressive power of language.
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To this extent, Wesley’s amateur status in the world of medicine was no doubt beneficial and made him untypical amongst the proponents of the scientific treatment of madness. 28 In the story of the progress of medicine, the steps taken by the early psychotechnologists are undoubtedly significant, even if the end of the story is not an unambiguously happy one. In the history of silence, however, few THE HISTORY OF SILENCE 31 enthusiasts showed Wesley’s regard for what could be spoken by those about to swing, drown or jolt.
Thus was governed the patient’s waking and sleeping hours, his company, servants, diet, exercise and daily activities. Within this temperate and ordered mode of living, the appetites would become accustomed to moderation, the imagination turned to new channels, while the nerves were protected from excitement or harassment. The patient, with or without the application of medicinal remedies, would be managed back to health. Battie’s significance is threefold. Most immediately, he brought about a reply to his Treatise from John Monro, the second member of the family to reign as physician to Bethlem Hospital.
31 If the history of silence can be heard through the overt statements of those taking responsibility for keeping down the noise of the mad, it can also be detected in less overt remarks made by those same professionals THE HISTORY OF SILENCE 35 regarding what the mad actually said. Few record lengthy conversations with insane patients, for there would be no point, it would be nonsense. But there are tantalising snatches of dialogue, or of monologue, as well as plentiful generalisations about what the mad customarily have to say.