Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Monro NPG 3117

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Monro

Monro's post at Bethlem, the nation's most prominent madhouse, made him a recognised expert on insanity. He was one of the physicians who attended the king, George III, during his second bout of madness in 1811-12. Monro was most notorious, however, for his testimony in 1815-16 before the House of Commons committee on madhouses, concerning scandalous abuses at Bethlem. He was accused of lacking humanity in his dealings with his patients, and of pursuing a course of medical treatment that was cruel, useless and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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