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James Parkinson had a wide and varied contact with lunacy. For at least 30 years he had been the visiting doctor of a madhouse at Hoxton, kept by John Burrows, and after his death by his widow, Mrs. Ester Burrows, and her son George William. This private asylum consisted of two sections, one for those who could afford the full cost of maintenance and the other for pauper patients sent by the Guardians of the Poor and supported by the Poor Rates of their own parish.1
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Morris, A.D. (1989). The Madhouse Doctor. In: Rose, F.C. (eds) James Parkinson His Life and Times. History of Neuroscience. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9824-4_10
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