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Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in Bromley, London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films, and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff. The hospital is part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Theophilus (Theo) Bulkeley Hyslop FRSE MRCPE (1863-12 February 1933) was a British physician specialising in mental health and overseeing, in various medical capacities, the notorious Bethlem Royal Hospital in London (commonly known as Bedlam) from 1888 to 1911. [1]
Europe's oldest asylum was the precursor of today's Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, known then as Bedlam, which began admitting the mentally ill in 1403 and is mentioned in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The first American asylum was built in Williamsburg, Virginia, circa 1773. Before the 19th century, these hospitals were used to isolate the ...
Also known as Bedlam, the hospital was the first in the UK to specialise in mental illness. [74] [75] One wing of the hospital was the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum, and those incarcerated there had committed crimes while judged to be insane. [76] [77] [i] Little is known about Oxford's life in at the Bethlem Hospital. [73]
A view of Bethlem Hospital, published in 1896. From 1852 to 1862 [1] [6] Hood was the resident Physician and Superintendent of Bethlem Royal Hospital, living there with his wife and family; [7] he "worked indefatigably for the improvement of the patients' conditions, and particularly for the segregation of the criminal insane".
James Tilly Matthews (1770 – 10 January 1815) was a British merchant of Welsh and Huguenot descent who was committed to the Bethlem Royal Hospital in 1797 after developing politically charged delusions which led him to disrupt sessions of the House of Commons of Great Britain.
Bedlam Heights, a haunted apartment building, is owned by Warren Bettany, who is assisted by his daughter Kate, who lives with Ryan McAllister and Molly Lucas. It was previously a mental asylum also owned by the family, but closed due to the abuse of patients. Jed Harper, Kate's adopted cousin, is able to see spirits and stop their malice.
The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.