Haslam & Hallaran: Mad Experts in 1800

Next, we imagine the characters of The Narrator (The Yellow Wallpaper), Dr. Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), and Laura (Carmilla) being analyzed, diagnosed, and treated by two pre-eminent Mad Experts who were working and writing around 1800.  Again, using what Gilman, Stevenson, and LeFanu wrote about their characters' external actions and internal experiences, this time we will rely on the expertise of John Haslam, Apothecary at Bethlem Asylum, Moorfields, and his 1798 Observations on insanity with practical remarks on the disease, and an account of the morbid appearances of dissection  and William Saunders Hallaran, Medical Superintendent of Cork Asylum, and his 1810 edition of An Inquiry into the Causes Producing the Extraordinary Addition to the Numbers of the Insane.