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Perceval, John
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Under That Calamity
by Perceval, John
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 84,640.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 24, 2022
by
Lanternfish Press.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » Biography » Physicians & medical professionals
"In the year 1830, I was unfortunately deprived of the use of reason. This calamity befell me about Christmas." After experiencing auditory hallucinations, John Perceval was institutionalized against his will for three years. His memoir A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement, was first published in 1838 in London with the aim of exposing...