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Excerpts of Escape from a Victorian Asylum : Brief List of Items from the Wellcome Collection
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2015
Excerpts of Escape from a Victorian Asylum : Brief List of Items from the Wellcome Collection
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Author's note: The idea for this sequence was sparked by an article ‘The Entire Case Records From a Victorian Asylum Now On Line’ by Ben Richmond, posted on Motherboard. The article referred to a number of items held by the Wellcome Collection. Some of these included – a fragment of skin from the body of Jeremy Bentham, tubular bellows used to resuscitate unconscious mental patients by blowing tobacco smoke into the rectum, Napoleon’s toothbrush, Sumatran amulets, and Florence Nightingale’s moccasins.
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"This restless melancholia",
2015
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poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2015; -
Nicotine
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"The masters say",
2015
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poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2015; -
Citizen Bonaparte
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"I am a commander of trigonometry",
2015
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poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2015; -
Dialectic Risk
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"Jeremy’s itch is unrelieved",
2015
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poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2015; -
Lady with the Lamp
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"Mathematics is the pure word of God",
2015
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poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2015; -
Trinkets
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"In the liquorice Sumatran night",
2015
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , December 2015;
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