Stray Notes on Foreign Asylums, &c.

Abstract

In the following stray notes and remarks, the writer details a trip to various places of medical and psychological interest which he made, in company with Professor Laycock, through some parts of France, Savoy, and Switzerland.

Experimental and theoretical study of a premixed vibrating flame

“…8 and 10. As a reminder, we also mention some experimental and theoretical studies that have more specifically taken up the acoustic/combustion coupling by using the combustion chamber as a Helmholtz resonator [11][12][13][14][15][16]. These studies are initially based on some observations made by Rayleigh about the response of a diffusive flame to some standing waves developed in tubes [11].…”

Death and the dead-house in Victorian asylums: necroscopy versus mourning at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum,c. 1832–1901

“…A contemporary commentator on Bethlem’s facilities similarly observed: ‘disposal of the corpse in a dead house removed from sight, and the unseen funeral thence, are … proofs of the anxiety to save the patients from aught … calculated to injure their health’ (Literary Gazette, 1844). Many continental asylums followed similar plans, including l’Hospice d’aliénés in Berne (McIntosh, 1864: 14). The Venice Asylum ‘dead-house and dissecting-room’ likewise abutted the kitchen, stores, bake-house and work-rooms, but were significantly more generously proportioned, segregated spaces, contiguous to the physician’s office, surgery and laboratory (Robertson, 1858: 228–9).…”