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Bibliography & Further Reading

Archival Sources

  • Bonsall, Isaac. Superintendent’s Day Book, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Caleb Cresson Letters, Folder 1, Box 16, Families of Philadelphia Collection, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Case Histories, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Daily Record Books, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Medical Registers, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Minutes and Register of the Committee of Admission, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Minutes of the Contributors to the Asylum, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Minutes of the Friends' Asylum Building Committee, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Minutes of the Managers, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Minutes of the Visiting Committee, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Scull family papers, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
  • Superintendent’s Daybook, Friends Hospital Records, Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Published Sources

  • 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. Philadelphia: Kimber and Conrad, 1814.
  • Bucknill, John Charles, and Daniel Hack Tuke. A Manual of Psychological Medicine. Containing the Lunacy Laws, the Nosology, Ætiology, Statistics, Description, Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Insanity. With an Appendix of Cases. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1879.
  • Cherry, Charles L. A Quiet Haven: Quakers, Moral Treatment, and Asylum Reform. Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 1989.
  • Committee on Mad-houses in England, House of Commons, Great Britain. and James Birch Sharpe. Report . . . from the Committee : Appointed to Consider of Provision Being Made for the Better Regulation of Madhouses in England . . . London: Baldwin Cradock and Joy, 1815.
  • D’Antonio, Patricia. Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends' Asylum in Early Nineteenth Century Philadelphia. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2006.
  • “Deaf and Dumb.” Philadelphia Recorder, July 10, 1824.
  • Digby, Anne. “Moral Treatment at the Retreat, 1796-1846.” In The Anatomy of Madness Volume II, edited by W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter, and Michael Shepherd, 52-72. London: Tavistock Publications, 1985.
  • “Dr. Anna Elizabeth Broomall,” Changing the Face of Medicine.
  • Eddy, Thomas. “Hints for Introducing an Improved Mode of Treating the Insane in the Asylum.” 1815.
  • The Family Magazine, Or, Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge. New York: Redfield & Lindsay, 1837.
  • Frost, Jerry W. “As the Twig Is Bent: Quaker Ideas of Childhood.” Quaker History 60, no. 2 (1971): 67–87.
  • Further Information of the Progress of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason. Philadelphia: Richardson, 1818.
  • Gale, T. Electricity, or Ethereal Fire, Considered. Troy: Moffitt and Lyon, 1802.
  • Godlee, Fiona. “Aspects of Non-Conformity: Quakers and the Lunatic Fringe.” In The Anatomy of Madness Volume II, edited by W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter, and Michael Shepherd, 73-82. London: Tavistock Publications, 1985.
  • Hamm, Thomas D. The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
  • Hastings, William S. “Robert Waln, Jr.: Quaker Satirist and Historian.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 76, no. 1 (1952): 71–80.
  • Herlihy, David V. Bicycle: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
  • Hurd, Henry, M., William F. Drewry, Richard Dewey, Charles W. Pilgrim, G. Alder Blumer, and T. J. W. Burgess. The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press.
  • Nash, Gary B. First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
  • Prichard, James. A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind. Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837.
  • Reiss, Benjamin. Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  • Rush, Benjamin. Medical Inquiries and Observations, upon the Diseases of the Mind. Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson, 1812.
  • Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
  • Spurzheim, Johann Christoph. Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity. Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970.
  • Toll, Jean Barth, and Mildred S. Gillam, eds. Invisible Philadelphia: Community through Voluntary Organizations. Philadelphia: Atwater Kent Museum, 1995.
  • Tuke, Samuel. Description of the Retreat, An Institution Near York for Insane Persons of the Religious Society of Friends, Containing an Account of its Origin and Progress, the Modes of Treatment, and a Statement of Cases. London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1813.
  • “Vision: A Transformative Voice for the 21st Century.” ScattergoodFoundation.org, 2016. http://www.scattergoodfoundation.org/vision.
  • Waller, John C. Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America. Santa Barabara: Greenwood, 2014.
  • Waln, Robert Jr. An Account of the Asylum for the Insane, Established by the Society of Friends, Near Frankford, in the Vicinity of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1825.
  • de Young, Mary. Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

Further Reading

  • Barbour, Hugh and J. William Frost. The Quakers. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
  • Brodsky, Alyn. Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician. New York: Truman Talley Books, 2004.
  • Cherry, Charles L. A Quiet Haven: Quakers, Moral Treatment, and Asylum Reform. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1989.
  • Delbourgo, James. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
  • Deutsch, Albert. The Mentally Ill in America: A History of their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.
  • Evans, Charles. Account of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason near Frankford, Pennsylvania: with the Statistics of the Institution from its Foundation to the 31st 12th month, 1838. Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1839.
  • “Glossary of Quaker Terms and Concepts.” New York Yearly Meeting. Accessed July 14, 2015. http://www.nyym.org/?q=glossary.
  • Goodheart, Lawrence B. Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
  • Gough, John Parker. An Essay on Cantharides; Comprising a Brief Account, of their Natural History, an Inquiry into their Mode of Operation, and their use in Diseases: with Some Remarks Relative to the Time when they Should be Employed. Philadelphia: Way and Groff, 1800.
  • Ingle, Larry H. Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.
  • Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • “Quakers and Slavery Glossary.” Quakers and Slavery. Accessed July 14, 2015. http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/quakersandslavery/resources/glossary.php.
  • Scull, Andrew. Madness: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Tomes, Nancy. A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-Keeping, 1840-1883. New York: University of Cambridge Press, 1984.
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