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English Patients in Foreign Asylums. A Note by the Editor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Communications which have been recently made to me by a well-informed foreign physician, coupled with the subject forming the final plot of the most popular novel of the season, induce me now to bring before our Association the important question of the existence and condition of English patients resident in the foreign asylums of France, Belgium, and Germany.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1863 

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* The Great Psychologist,” in the person of Alwyn Mosgrave, M.D., 12, Savile Row, is thus sketched: “The physician from Savile Row was a tall man, of about fifty years of age. He was thin and sallow, with lantern jaws, and eyes of a pale, feeble gray that seemed as if they had once been blue, and had faded by the progress of time to their present neutral shade. However powerful the science of medicine as wielded by Dr. Alwyn Mosgrave, it had not been strong enough to put flesh upon his bones or brightness into his face. He had a strangely expressionless, and yet strongly attentive countenance. He had the face of a man who had spent the greater part of his life in listening to other people, and who had parted with his own individuality and his own passions at the very outset of his career.”Google Scholar

* That the present French government, in their wild, hopeless efforts to suppress freedom of thought in the most intellectual nation in Europe, occasionally send noisy, political adversaries for temporary treatment in the Bicêtre, has been stated to me on undoubted authority.Google Scholar

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