Leonard D Smith, ‘Cure, comfort and safe custody’: public lunatic asylums in early nineteenth-century England, London and New York, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. ix, 310, illus., £55.00 (0-7185-0094-6).

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Leonard D Smith, ‘Cure, comfort and safe custody’: public lunatic asylums in early nineteenth-century England, London and New York, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. ix, 310, illus., £55.00 (0-7185-0094-6).

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Information: Medical History , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , October 2000 , pp. 557 - 558

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Leonard D Smith, ‘Cure, comfort and safe custody’: public lunatic asylums in early nineteenth-century England, London and New York, Leicester University Press, 1999, pp. ix, 310, illus., £55.00 (0-7185-0094-6).

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