Talk:Bethlem Royal Hospital
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It hardley seems encyclopaedic to refer to Bethlem as "the world's oldest 'madhouse'". Hence the term has been removed. --Lejend 22:19, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] An inaccuracy?
I am reading a theatre play from 1622, the Changeling, and there is a place similar to Bedlam, very likely to have been taken up from the real one, and there is a passage mentioning "patients" as well as "daily visitants" who were looking at the madmen for fun. This would render the first dates of mentioning the former (18th century) and latter respectively (19th century) questionable. Malej 19:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
