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A SNAPSHOT IN TIME

Eliza Camplin

Admitted: 1857 | Diagnosis: acute mania

A labourer’s wife, 36-year-old Eliza spent around eight months in Bethlem and was discharged having “continued to behave well and rationally” for some weeks. Prior to this image being taken, Eliza is recorded as having “made

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