Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Hannah Mills

  • The York Retreat

    Beninio McDonough-Tranza London, United Kingdom   Painting of the York Retreat by George Isaac Sidebottom, a patient at the retreat in the 1890s and early 1900s. Image from the retreat archives (RET/2/1/7/5), courtesy of the Welcome Collection. On 15 March 1790 Hannah Mills, a recently widowed young woman suffering from “melancholy,” was admitted to York…