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The Incredible Bones of the Narrenturm by Robert W. Mann

The Incredible Bones of the Narrenturm

... Narrenturm soon exceeded capacity and additional accommodations were required. Thus the “Lazareth” at the end of Währingerstraße, originally built as a plague hospital and used as a military hospital since 1766, was assigned to the ...

Vienna – A Doctor’s Guide by Wolfgang Regal

Vienna – A Doctor’s Guide

... Narrenturm was the first specialised institute in Europe devoted exclusively General Hospital and Narrenturm 1784. Narrenturm – historical photograph. Record books. to the mentally ill, and represents the beginning of humanitarian ...

Coffee with Freud by Brett Kahr

Coffee with Freud

... Narrenturm has become memorialised in this round cake , here on our table : the Gugelhupf . SF : You are right , I think . The Gugelhupf does indeed resemble the Narrenturm . Tall and round , I suppose . You know that , before my time ...

Crime and Madness in Modern Austria by Rebecca S. Thomas

Crime and Madness in Modern Austria

... (Narrenturm), a round, panopticon-like building which had been built in 1784 by Josef II and nicknamed the Guglhupf (Austrian cake), the buildings were compared in the publicity for the new asylum; where patients had once been mistreated ...

Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe by Ole Peter Grell

Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe

... (Narrenturm) in Vienna, see Jasmine Köhle, Der Narrenturm in Wien. 75. Birgit Bolognese-Leuchtenmüller, Bevölkerungsentwicklung (as note 15), Tables 71 and 75. 76. On the Viennese Foundling House, see Verena Pawlowsky and Rosa Zechner ...

Moon Prague, Vienna & Budapest by Jennifer D. Walker

Moon Prague, Vienna & Budapest

... narrenturm, Wed 10am-6pm, Thu 10am-1pm, Sat 10am-1pm, €4 entrance, an extra €4 for the tour, U: Schottentor Looming above the former grounds of the Vienna General Hospital where Freud began his career, the Narrenturm, which translates ...

The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease by Michaela Binder

The Bioarchaeology of Cardiovascular Disease

... Narrenturm in Vienna, Austria Karin Wiltschke-Schrotta, Eduard Winter and Michelle Gamble Introduction The Pathologic–Anatomical Collection in Vienna, Austria, now housed in the Narrenturm ('Lunatic Tower', a mental health asylum built ...

British Medical Journal by

British Medical Journal

... Narrenturm . Besides this , however , paying patients were received into special wards of the General Hospital . Provision so slender naturally soon became exhausted , but for many years only palliative measures- were undertaken - such ...

The Rough Guide to Vienna by Rob Humphreys

The Rough Guide to Vienna

... Narrenturm Looking something like a converted gasometer , the circular , unprepossessing Narrenturm ( Wed 3-6pm , Thurs 8-11am & Sat 10 am-1pm ; € 2 ; www .narrenturm.at ) or “ Fools ' Tower ” is situated in a scruffy , neglected ...

Franz Joseph Gall by Stanley Finger

Franz Joseph Gall

... Narrenturm, 2000. 23 The Narrenturm now houses a pathological anatomy museum. 24 Joseph's first wife was French, Marie Antoinette was her sister, and Josef II visited France in 1777. May 21, 1806, is telling in this regard. It was.