By the early 15th century, Bethlem was acquiring a reputation for caring for the distracted, and by Shakespeare’s time it was widely referred to as “Bedlam” indeed, the bedlam mad became a fixture on the Jacobean stage. Mike Jay’s fascinating and lavishly illustrated “This Way Madness Lies” makes some of its riches available to a wider audience.īethlem was founded more than 750 years ago, one of a number of monastic “hospitals” that provided shelter for pilgrims and travelers as well as for the halt, the lame, the blind, the orphaned and the old. The Air Loom Gang Jay, Mike Published by Bantam Press(2004) ISBN 10: 0553814850ISBN 13: 9780553814859 UsedPaperback Quantity: 2 Seller: WorldofBooks (Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Paperback. He leaves the readers brain feeling well and truly kited. Together with another trove of objects from the archives of the oldest mental hospital in the English-speaking world, Bethlem, these images form the basis for a remarkable exhibition devoted to the history of madness over the past three centuries, now under way in London. Jay proves to be as dextrous a weaver of thoughts as 'Glove Woman', the most skilled of the Air Looms operators. Before the creation of the Gates Foundation, the trust he established was the richest in the world, and the medical historical library that the Wellcome Trust maintains in London contains, among other treasures, an extraordinary array of visual materials on all subjects medical. Its principal founder, Henry Wellcome, had two great passions, medical research and medical history, and endowed both of them at his death with his massive fortune. was one of the largest and most profitable pharmaceutical corporations on the planet.

Until the name disappeared in a wave of corporate mergers that took place at the end of the 20th century, the Burroughs Wellcome Co.

The Air Loom Gang by Mike Jay