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Bookmark or Share- The Crazy True Story Of Bedlam: The Bethlem Royal HospitalBedlam. All incredibly strong words that evoke powerful imagery of a hellish brew of nightmares and lunacy. If the word "pandemonium" was popularized by Milton's 1667 Paradise Lost, about the Biblical story of the Fall of Man (note the word "demon"), it might not be too surprising to see similar origins in other words.
- Bedlam | mental health, psychiatric care, asylum | BritannicaBedlam, the first asylum for the mentally ill in England. It is currently located in Beckenham, Kent. The word bedlam came to be used generically for all psychiatric hospitals and sometimes is used colloquially for an uproar. In 1247 the asylum was founded at Bishopsgate, just outside the London.
- Bedlam Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterThe meaning of BEDLAM is a place, scene, or state of uproar and confusion. How to use bedlam in a sentence.
- Bethlem Royal Hospital - WikipediaBethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St. Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in Bromley, London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films, and TV series, most notably Bedlam , a 1946 film with Boris Karloff .
- How Bethlem Royal Hospital Became The Notorious Bedlam AsylumBethlem Royal Hospital in London was an institution to lock away the outcasts of English society, which became so dysfunctional it was known as "Bedlam." Before Bedlam, there had never been a place for the mentally infirm, disabled and criminally-minded to be treated away from society.
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